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Jagan lambasts ‘Draconian’ Centre
Jagan lambasts ‘Draconian’ Centre, T bill in Parliament, Seemandhra bandh, Jagan Mohan Reddy. Speaking to the media in Delhi, Jagan said the Congress had made a mockery of democracy in broad day light by taking unilateral decisions in the house.
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Hyderabad: Alleging that the Centre had made a mockery of democracy by resorting to forceful introduction of the T bill in Parliament, the YSRCP president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy gave a call for Seemandhra bandh on Friday.
Speaking to the media in Delhi, Jagan said the Congress had made a mockery of democracy in broad day light by taking unilateral decisions in the house.
“I am sure even the noted dictator Adolf Hitler would not have behaved in this manner,” Jagan said the AICC President Sonia Gandhi was behaving like a dictator.
Referring to the incidents that took place in Lok Sabha, he said, “Today in broad daylight democracy has been slaughtered. I could hear Madam Speaker telling that democracy is being mocked. But within 10 seconds, even without taking the opinion of the House, she declares that the Bill is introduced. Democracy is thus mocked here with this act. Fifteen out of the seventeen Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh were suspended before dividing their State.
He said they had given a letter to the Speaker condemning the proceedings and BJP leaders LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Tambi Dorai of AIADMK, Sharad Yadav, Samajwadi Party members were also with him when he went to protest against this undemocratic practice. “We have in fact walked out of the House in protest,” he said.
Jagan said this draconian policy of the Centre should be stopped here itself or else it will become a bad precedent and the day is not far away when any party with 272 seats in the Parliament will divide any state, be it Tamil Nadu, Karnataka or Uttar Pradesh for their whims and fancies or for political gains. Unless we stand up and protest against this injustice, democracy will perish.
He said that, “by Monday when the Lok Sabha meets again, we will ensure to gather enough support to stall the Bill and the undemocratic division.”
When asked about the fisticuffs of MPs in the well of the House, he said the members involved in the scuffle were Venugopal Reddy and Ramesh Rathore and both belong to TDP. N Chandrababu Naidu has been whipping regional passion and has been unleashing their MPs instead of taking a concrete stand, he said.
He urged all the opposition parties to stand up and fight against the draconian practices adopted by the union government, Jagan said if the opposition was not united the democracy would perish.
