Government today scotched speculation that the Monsoon Session of Parliament will be curtailed and both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will adjourn sine die.
“There is no question of adjourning Parliament sine die,” Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat told reporters here.
He said the Government was making all efforts to end the logjam on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation and accused the BJP of continuously disrupting the House where issues concerning the common man should be discussed.
In a bid to reach out to non-NDA partners like JD-U, which had expressed reservations over the continuous disruption of proceedings, Harish Rawat said senior Parliamentarians like Sharad Yadav could not support BJP’s “destructive” politics.
“Sharad Yadav is a senior leader who believes in supremacy of Parliamentary democracy. He can not support BJP’s destructive politics,” he said.
His statement came after BJP’s vociferous demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation, holding him responsible for delayed coal block auctions.
Yesterday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had also scoffed at suggestions that the Monsoon session will be adjourned sine die prematurely due to the persisting deadlock. The Monsoon session is scheduled to end on September 7.
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