From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Parliament remained stalled for the second day of the monsoon session on Tuesday for want of any truce between the government and the Opposition. Neither side has taken the initiative to put on rail the two Houses and so the sitting on Wednesday may also end up with the continuing deadlock.
Both the Houses were adjourned in the morning up to 2 PM and then for the day as the pandemonium persisted on the Opposition insisting on a debate on the price rise and levy of the GST on the daily use items from Monday.
Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House in the morning within five minutes on slogans for the debate, while Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla carried on the question hour to take up three questions despite the ruckus and the Opposition members in the well with the placards before adjourning.
Deputy chairman Harivansh tried to push the discussion on the government’s Bill on amendment to the mass destruction Act in the post-lunch session and even allowed External Affairs Minister Dr S Jishankar briefly speak on it. He did not allow Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge to speak on any subject except the Bill, only to meet with the loud slogans from the opposition benches forcing adjournment for the day.
Speaker Om Birla left it for Kirit Solanki, a Gujarat BJP MP on the panel of chairmen, to handle the heat in the post 2 PM sitting. Solanki tried for a while and then adjourned for the day.
