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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sitaram and Sush put heads together

Sitaram and Sush put heads together

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published Published on Aug 17, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 17, 2011

-The Telegraph

 

The CPM and the BJP closed ranks today, with Sitaram Yechury heading to Sushma Swaraj’s chamber in Parliament to plot strategy on the government crackdown on Anna Hazare.

General secretary Prakash Karat’s stringent anti-Congress line prevailed in the CPM, which has so far consciously avoided being seen with the “communal” BJP, and a reluctant Yechury followed party colleague Ramchandra Dome to Sushma’s room after the politburo issued a second statement in support of Hazare.

“The Manmohan Singh government has attacked the democratic right to conduct peaceful protest… the politburo calls upon all its party units to conduct protest tomorrow, August 17, all over the country,” the statement said.

The first statement had condemned the action but not called for protests.

Earlier the party had sent the lightweight MP Dome after repeated requests from Sushma. At that time, CPM leaders said Dome had been sent to clarify they were against boycott of Parliament.

The CPI’s Gurudas Dasgupta and D. Raja and the RSP’s Prashanta Majumdar took the number of Left participants in the meeting to five.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and the Samajwadi Party’s Shailendra Kumar attended, as did the NDA’s Sharad Yadav and Ananthrao Adsul.

At the end of the hour-long talks, the Opposition rejected Dasgupta’s suggestion of a three-day boycott of Parliament and decided it would demand a statement from the Prime Minister and seek the immediate release of Hazare and his associates.

The second was rendered unnecessary when the government decided this evening to release Hazare.

“We want Parliament to function to put the government in the dock,” Yechury said.

While laying out their protest plan, the Opposition clarified that they had issues with Hazare’s Jan Lokpal bill and that they were prepared to discuss the Lokpal bill the government had introduced in Parliament and referred to a standing committee.

“The ruling party is empowered with the right to introduce and legislate a bill. The Opposition can express its views, including dissenting views, before the committee and bring in amendments, if necessary. Likewise, Hazareji’s team can also express its views to the panel. But in the end, the bill will be passed by the vote of the majority in Parliament,” BJP president Nitin Gadkari said.

The Opposition has decided to skirt the debate on Parliament’s supremacy in legislation, and stick to two points: the UPA’s alleged corruption and people’s right to protest.

Gadkari told a news conference the crackdown brought back memories of 1975 and that the “government is moving towards the imposition of a second Emergency”.

In an NDA meeting at L.K. Advani’s office after Hazare was detained, the BJP decided it should “make common cause” with the non-Congress parties. Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav was asked to sound out the Left. Once it was clear they were willing, the Left was asked to bring other parties on board.

Today was not the first time Karat has allowed his anti-Congress line to bury long-held party views. Last month, he shared a stage with Hazare team member Prashant Bhushan, overriding protests from party colleagues who pointed out that the CPM has long accused “action groups” of furthering “imperialist strategy”.

The Telegraph, 17 August, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110817/jsp/nation/story_14386097.jsp


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