Article : Shri Arun Jaitley on "Parliament Pandemonium exposes Congress's Incompetence"

Parliament Pandemonium exposes Congress’s Incompetence

- Arun Jaitley

Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha)

We have repeatedly maintained that the UPA has lost the will to rule. Its ability to take and implement political decisions has come into severe questioning. What has happened today is on account of the UPA’s inability to handle the political situation arising out of the proposal to create the state of Telangana. The Congress Party itself is vertically split. Its Members of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh are predominantly responsible for ensuring that Parliament is unable to function effectively. Its Chief Minister has ensured that administration in the state is completely paralyzed.

Today’s incidents in the Lok Sabha is a serious blow to India’s Parliamentary democracy. Dangerous & Prohibited devices are used to block the Parliamentary proceedings. Members are unsure of what actually has happened. As against this the BJP, including all its Members, from both Telangana and Seemandhra region are taking a cohesive stand in support of the creation of the state of Telangana while simultaneously addressing the legitimate concerns of the people of Seemandhra. Regrettably, the UPA has completely failed in this regard. The present crisis is directly on account of this failure. It is the Congress and Congress alone which must take the responsibility for completely mishandling the situation. Today’s ‘theatre of the absurd’ could have been avoided only if the Congress leadership had done adequate home work and were able to control its own members.

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