New Delhi: With just two days left for the budget session in Parliament to begin, almost all political parties have decided to corner the government on the issue of price rise and have demanded discussion on the issue on the first day.
“The opposition has agreed that there must be a discussion on the issue of price rise on the first working day of Parliament. If the government agrees to our demand, the proceedings of the parliament will not be disrupted,” said Sushma Swaraj, the leader of Opposition soon after a two-hour long meeting with the Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar.
Trinamool Congress and DMK who also attended the Speaker’s meeting have also demanded a full-fledged debate on the issue.
The CPI too has threatened that if the government didn’t agree to the demands of the political parties, they would move an adjournment motion.
CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta said that the Left parties were also planning to raise issues of fertilizer price hike and the plight of unorganised sector workers.
Coming under attack from all quarters, the prime minister decided to step in to meet the challenge of the opposition parties. “We are ready to discuss all issues in Parliament,” the prime minister Manmohan Singh said after the meeting.
Swaraj added that BJP was also looking to take up the issues of growing Maoist violence, Ranganath Misra Commission report, Indo-Pak talks and Justice Sageer Ahmed’s report on Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy.
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