New Delhi, March 10: Noisy scenes ruled the Lok Sabha a day after the Upper House passed the controversial Women’s Reservation Bill but those creating the ruckus stepped down the talk of pulling back support from the UPA on the issue.
Members of SP, RJD and JD(U) disrupted House proceedings for the third day over the forcible eviction of their colleagues in the Rajya Sabha. The party members also staged a walk out in RS, demanding the revoking of suspension.
Virtually no business could be transacted due to pandemonium in the House, which had to be adjourned twice till 1400 hours and finally for the day when it reassembled. Only one question could be taken up.
As soon as the House met for the day, members belonging to SP, RJD and JD(U) led by Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Sharad Yadav rushed to the well and disrupted proceedings.
They shouted ‘marshal bulao’ (call the marshals) to protest the eviction of their party colleagues in the Rajya Sabha, forcing Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the House first during Question Hour and later at noon.
The Speaker could not even order the laying of papers due to the vociferous protests. Noticing the aggressive mood, Kumar adjourned the House almost immediately after she came in.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj were present.
When the House was not in session, Yadav and Prasad were seen urging Swaraj to take up the issue of using marshals to remove the seven suspended members from Rajya Sabha yesterday and BJP member Yashwant Sinha was heard asking them to go the President and withdraw their support to the UPA.
Notwithstanding their disruption of the Lok Sabha today, Samajwadi Party and RJD, which had been seething with anger on government going ahead with the Constitution amendment bill, also made it clear that there were no plans to table any no-confidence motion.
Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters that since his party did not have the required numbers, he was not thinking on puling the plug. Lalu Yadav seconded his opinion.
“We have only four MPs and, therefore, where is the question of no-confidence motion,” he said.
While the SP has 21 members in the Lok Sabha, RJD has only 4. The two leaders had on Monday announced taking back their support. Trinamool Congress’ Mamata Banerjee had held parleys with the Yadavs after she expressed unhappiness on not being consulted over how to move the Bill.
Mamata today said though she supported the Women Reservation Bill, there was a lack of communication on the matter which resulted in her party members from abstaining to vote in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
She said during the meeting of allies with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it was decided that an all party meeting would be called (on the Bill) where her party could also raise the issue of including minorities in women’s reservation.
“But no (all party) meeting was called later. We had no information,” said Banerjee who was fuming yesterday and directed her two Rajya Sabha members not to vote.
When pointed that Left was taking all the credit for the successful passage of the Bill in the Upper House, she said Left never wanted quota for women in the Rajya Sabha as it was against letting common women enter the Upper House.
Yesterday, Trinamool MP Dinesh Trivedi had said his party chief wanted the views of the Dalits, OBCs and Muslims to be taken on board.
-PTI inputs
Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Noisy scenes ruled the Lok Sabha a day after the Upper House passed the controversial Women’s Reservation Bill but those creating the ruckus stepped down the talk of pulling back support from the UPA on the issue.
Members of SP, RJD and JD(U) disrupted House proceedings for the third day over the forcible eviction of their colleagues in the Rajya Sabha. The party members also staged a walk out in RS, demanding the revoking of suspension.
Virtually no business could be transacted due to pandemonium in the House, which had to be adjourned twice till 1400 hours and finally for the day when it reassembled. Only one question could be taken up.
As soon as the House met for the day, members belonging to SP, RJD and JD(U) led by Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Sharad Yadav rushed to the well and disrupted proceedings.
They shouted ‘marshal bulao’ (call the marshals) to protest the eviction of their party colleagues in the Rajya Sabha, forcing Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the House first during Question Hour and later at noon.
The Speaker could not even order the laying of papers due to the vociferous protests. Noticing the aggressive mood, Kumar adjourned the House almost immediately after she came in.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj were present.
When the House was not in session, Yadav and Prasad were seen urging Swaraj to take up the issue of using marshals to remove the seven suspended members from Rajya Sabha yesterday and BJP member Yashwant Sinha was heard asking them to go the President and withdraw their support to the UPA.
Notwithstanding their disruption of the Lok Sabha today, Samajwadi Party and RJD, which had been seething with anger on government going ahead with the Constitution amendment bill, also made it clear that there were no plans to table any no-confidence motion.
Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters that since his party did not have the required numbers, he was not thinking on puling the plug. Lalu Yadav seconded his opinion.
“We have only four MPs and, therefore, where is the question of no-confidence motion,” he said.
While the SP has 21 members in the Lok Sabha, RJD has only 4. The two leaders had on Monday announced taking back their support. Trinamool Congress’ Mamata Banerjee had held parleys with the Yadavs after she expressed unhappiness on not being consulted over how to move the Bill.
Mamata today said though she supported the Women Reservation Bill, there was a lack of communication on the matter which resulted in her party members from abstaining to vote in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
She said during the meeting of allies with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it was decided that an all party meeting would be called (on the Bill) where her party could also raise the issue of including minorities in women’s reservation.
“But no (all party) meeting was called later. We had no information,” said Banerjee who was fuming yesterday and directed her two Rajya Sabha members not to vote.
When pointed that Left was taking all the credit for the successful passage of the Bill in the Upper House, she said Left never wanted quota for women in the Rajya Sabha as it was against letting common women enter the Upper House.
Yesterday, Trinamool MP Dinesh Trivedi had said his party chief wanted the views of the Dalits, OBCs and Muslims to be taken on board.
–PTI