Sadhvi’s remarks unites opposition

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ENARADA, New Delhi, December 5, 2014

The second week of Parliament winter session saw plenty of action in Parliament with the opposition attacking the government on the remarks by union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and remained unrelenting in their aggressive posture despite the Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking them to end the confrontation after her apology.

Clearly the opposition – Congress, Trinamul Congress, members of the newly launched Janata Parivar comprising six political parties began their protest by waving black umbrellas followed by black shawls and finally black bands round their mouth.

Lok Sabha Speaker Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan remained unrelenting and firm.

Apparently the opposition appears to have got an issue which it feels would help in cornering the government.

As Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge contended ministers making statements outside in public meetings affected the communal harmony in the country.

“We want the government to rectify this and for this we would like to know what action is being taken,” he said.

Meanwhile, a top ‘left’ leader suggested that the government take three sentences from the prime minister’s speech in parliament and let it be passed in the form of a resolution.

He was immediately countered by a senior BJP leader who said that the prime minister has already spoken and so the chapter is closed.

As one ruling party member remarked sarcastically “so left and Trinamul have broken the bamboo curtain.”

With the confrontation going on in Parliament, no legislation could be carried out.

Whatever defence of her maybe put up by the BJP leadership, but, the 47 year old who was born into a community of poor boatmen in a village close to the river Yamuna, power appears to have been tasted by her and as one resident of Hamipur which she represented as an MLA said “of late, she has become arrogant.”

The week saw the nation celebrating the 43rd Navy Day with the Navy Chief Admiral R.K. Dhowan saying that India was fully geared up to protect its 1,197 islands and 6,715 km long coastline and that the coastal security is being beefed up considering that there are about 250,000 fishing boats that fish in Indian seas and coupled with this was the possibility of non-State actors commandeering a Pakistani naval frigate and carrying out an attack anywhere on the Indian coast.

Even as Admiral Dhowan spoke of coastal security, the week saw terrorists striking in four places in Kashmir valley which coincided with a rally in Lahore by JUD chief and designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed for which the Pakistan government provided rail and other transport to bring people for his rally.

Clearly nothing could be more blatant than this of Pakistan aiding and abetting terrorism.

The four terror attacks comes just before Prime Minister Modi’s poll rally in Kashmir Valley which is clearly a message from across the border to the voters to refrain from casting their votes and as one BJP leader said “this is clearly a sign of desperation by Pakistan backed terrorists since people in the valley have now begun to have faith in the democratic process.”

The attacks and gun battles with security forces which in all left 21 people dead also included a top commander of Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT and seven militants. Srinagar and Shopian were the other two places where the militants struck.

After having gone abroad almost half a dozen times since becoming prime minister, Modi would now be welcoming Russian President Vladimir Putin who reaches New Delhi on December 11 for the annual Summit.

During the visit which is expected to be for about 20 hours, the two leaders will spell out their vision for cooperation in key areas including defence and nuclear and the two sides could possibly sign about 15-20 agreements.

The visit is significant since it would help the two leaders carry forward their meeting on July 16 at Fortaleza in Brazil on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit with both sides expressing the desire that they should do so at the upcoming Summit in New Delhi.

During the visit, the two sides would discuss various key projects including the envisaged gas pipeline linking Russia with India and the ambitious Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) programme as also cooperation in the nuclear energy area.

“President Putin’s visit is a landmark event and is expected to provide fresh impetus to the existing bilateral relations between the two countries. The dominant theme of this summit will be the spelling out by the two leaders a joint vision of our relationship for the next decade,” Ajay Bisaria, Joint Secretary (EURASIA) said.

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