Veteran BJP leader lK Advani on Sunday accused the UPA Government of creating “horrible mess” in the ongoing Parliament session in dealing with Telangana and also taken it to task for goof-ups by Defence Minister AK Antony on the killings at loC.
“Because of the mishandling of the Telangana issue, the Parliament session has till now proved utterly barren. But a serious tragedy occurred last week on the loC, which has inflicted irreparable damage on the reputation of this Government - particularly because of the goof-up on the day of the tragedy itself by Defence Minister AK Antony,” Advani said on his blog.
Advani claimed that in 41 years of his Parliamentary life, he never came across such messing-up of the Parliament session by the Government as the UPA Government has done with the current Monsoon Session. “A three week session was announced. The first week has ended. On not a single day could either Question Hour or any other business be
transacted. It has been a daily pandemonium for the entire week. And the pandemonium was created principally by Congressmen belonging to Andhra — protesting against Telangana and demanding that AP remains united,” wrote Advani, blaming the Government for prodding ruling MPs to disturb the proceedings.
Advani said BJP members kept pleading with the Government to restrain their own party members, but there was no evidence of even an attempt being made in that direction. He wondered how the ruling party planned to conduct business in the remaining two weeks of the session.
“I would say that if the Pakistan Army ambushed our jawans on the loC and killed five of them, the Indian Parliament, upset with Antony’s statement, ambushed the Defence Minister and forced him to take back his wishy-washy version of the first day, and replace it with another statement, fully reflecting the national mood of anger against Pakistan,” he said.
Advani said, “Even before the current session of Parliament commenced, the media reported a seemingly PMO-inspired news report that the Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) would be holding talks with Nawaz Sharif, and that too without the rider of 26/11 — meaning that there would be no insistence on the culprits behind the terrorist attack on Mumbai being revealed.”
“Parliament therefore was happy to find that the revised version of Antony’s statement on August 8 said that Pakistan should also show determined action to dismantle the terrorist networks, organisations and infrastructure and show tangible movement on bringing those responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attack in November 2008 to justice quickly,” he added.