Govt accuses BJP of creating ruckus in Lok Sabha

New Delhi, May 23 (UNI) Defending the adoption of the Motion of the Privilege Committee report to admonish former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subhash C Kashyap for denigrating the Office of Speaker, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi today deplored the behaviour of the BJP MPs in the House which ''stemmed out of frustration over the Jharkhand development and outcome of recent assembly elections''.

Addressing the customary news conference at the end of the Budget session, Mr Dasmunsi said the BJP was in the grip of frustration as its twin-rath yatras had also resulted in the biggest failure.

''The party seems to be under gloom since the failure of Rath Yatras, election results going against it and its senior Jharkhand leader Babu Lal Marandi putting in papers,'' he said Their behaviour in the House using the unprecedented 'abusive' language against the chair was result of the 'negativity'' the BJP leaders were suffering, he said.

The Parliamentary Affairs Minister said the report was presented to the House on May 19 and the BJP members on the Privilege Committee had never put any objection to it.

He said BJP Deputy Leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra had met him yesterday and wanted that the Motion be deferred to the Monsoon Session and the report be sent for a review. But there was no precedent that the report which had been tabled in the House was revisited by another committee. This was the reason that the Government wanted a discussion on the Motion on the Committees Report today.

''It was the BJP, and the BJP alone, not the NDA which disrupted the proceedings and the Government was forced to adopt the Motion amid pandemonium,'' he said.

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