Speaker says not concerned with success of govt

New Delhi, Jul 21 (UNI) Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, during a friendly exchange with CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta, today said he was not concerned with the success of the government.

When Mr Dasgupta sought a little more time to state some more facts which could help the government to succeed, the Speaker interrupted, saying "I am not concerned with it... I am concerned with running the House." Earlier too, Mr Dasgupta and Mr Chatterjee had an exchange of banter when the former claimed that people, hard hit by wrong economic policies of the government, would change it.

When the Speaker asked whom they(people) would bring in, the CPI House leader quipped;"They will choose the party with right (economic) policy." UNI SAA PK AS2045