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NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday accused the government of wanting to establish an “authoritarian dominance” in Parliament by “terrorising” the opposition, which it said was borne out by the unilateral suspension of MP Rajini Patil, and through the expunction of remarks made by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and MP Rahul Gandhi even when they were neither unparliamentary, nor abusive in any way.
RS MP and Congress legal eagle Abhishek Singhvi argued against Patil’s suspension and the expunging of Kharge’s and Gandhi’s speeches in Parliament and said BJP does not want Parliament to run through consensus, collaboration and concordance, but through “clash, chaos, and conflict”. In a fervent appeal for fairplay to Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha chairperson, who he referred to as the “robust shields” without who the “spirit of healthy parliamentary discussion and debate will perish”, Singhvi said not a single word in Kharge’s or Gandhi’s speeches justified the use of the power of expunction. “There is no use of unparliamentary language, no expletives, no debasement of any institution, no objectionable or abusive word or phrase. There is absolutely nothing which is remotely defamatory or indecent or unparliamentary or undignified in those addresses,” he said.
The senior advocate-MP added, “Unless free, frank and fearless discussion is allowed to take place within the two Houses of Parliament, democracy is fundamentally and irreversibly imperiled…Expunction is not justified by any reading of the relevant Rules, like Rule 380 qua Lok Sabha and similar Rules in RS dealing with expunction. None of the tests therein are even applicable, much less met.”
Congress also protested against Patil’s suspension for the remainder of the Budget session, calling the action “disproportionate, excessive and actuated purely by political malice at the behest of this government”.
RS MP and Congress legal eagle Abhishek Singhvi argued against Patil’s suspension and the expunging of Kharge’s and Gandhi’s speeches in Parliament and said BJP does not want Parliament to run through consensus, collaboration and concordance, but through “clash, chaos, and conflict”. In a fervent appeal for fairplay to Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha chairperson, who he referred to as the “robust shields” without who the “spirit of healthy parliamentary discussion and debate will perish”, Singhvi said not a single word in Kharge’s or Gandhi’s speeches justified the use of the power of expunction. “There is no use of unparliamentary language, no expletives, no debasement of any institution, no objectionable or abusive word or phrase. There is absolutely nothing which is remotely defamatory or indecent or unparliamentary or undignified in those addresses,” he said.
The senior advocate-MP added, “Unless free, frank and fearless discussion is allowed to take place within the two Houses of Parliament, democracy is fundamentally and irreversibly imperiled…Expunction is not justified by any reading of the relevant Rules, like Rule 380 qua Lok Sabha and similar Rules in RS dealing with expunction. None of the tests therein are even applicable, much less met.”
Congress also protested against Patil’s suspension for the remainder of the Budget session, calling the action “disproportionate, excessive and actuated purely by political malice at the behest of this government”.
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