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'Don’t give us sermon on Winter Session', Naqvi to Sonia

'Don’t give us sermon on Winter Session', Naqvi to Sonia

New Delhi, Nov 21 (UNI) Countering the Congress party’s allegation of government sabotaging the Winter Session, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday that the grand old party’s track record pertaining to Parliament is “tainted and it should not give us sermon”.
In a reply to a question from reporters here Mr Naqvi said it was the same Congress which had locked Parliament during the Emergency. “And now they were talking about Parliament democracy”!
On Monday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi while addressing the Congress Working Committee had said that the Narendra Modi government in its arrogance had cast a dark shadow on India’s Parliamentary democracy by sabotaging the Winter Session of Parliament on flimsy grounds.
“A number of times this had happened that when crucial elections take place in the country, the schedule for Parliament are prepared as per timing of the elections. This is not something new and this has happened many times during the Congress regime also,” Mr Naqvi said.
Dismissing the Congress chief’s remark Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in turn attacked the party saying said that the Parliament sessions were often rescheduled to ensure they did not overlap with elections, and the party during its tenure had also done so in the past.
Earlier in the day, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said that the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs will be soon meeting to decide on the dates for the Winter Session of Parliament.
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