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Jaitley slams UPA for T stand-off
Arun Jaitley Slams UPA For T Stand-Off. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has slammed the Congress-led UPA government for its utter failure to reconcile the differences between the representatives of Telangana and Seemandhra regions.
It failed to reconcile differences between Seemandhra, T leaders
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has slammed the Congress-led UPA government for its utter failure to reconcile the differences between the representatives of Telangana and Seemandhra regions. He asserted that the causes of the parliamentary stalemate and the ugly scenes one saw on Thursday were essentially UPA-provoked, as most members disturbing the proceedings belonged to the UPA, but no effort was made to reconcile their differences.
Arun Jaitley said, "The UPA has now completely collapsed on dispute-resolution in relation to creation of a State of Telangana. It has unleashed forces within its own party, which it no longer can control. The holding of a parliamentary session without disturbances has now become rare. The disturbance is not by mainstream Opposition, but by UPA's own members. Government, particularly the Prime
Minister's Office and the Home Ministry, are completely paralyzed and taking no initiative in resolving the issues at hand." Pointing out that both Telangana and Seemandhra regions live with a sense of injustice being done to them, Jaitley said the UPA government has taken leave of all sense of statecraft. Even today it is not too
late to provide a forum within or outside Parliament for a process of conciliation, which can forthwith lead to the creation of Telangana, while addressing the genuine concerns of the people of Seemandhra, he said.
Even today, Jaitley said, it is still not too late to pick up the threads and work towards a larger consensus. Issues such as creation of a capital for Seemandhra, eventual creation of a separate High Court in Seemandhra, compensating the region with regard to the loss of revenue caused by a bifurcation, comfort-level with regard to water and power in the regions are among other issues, which are capable of being resolved, he said. The NDA, while creating the three States of Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh had amicably resolved these issues, he pointed out.
Jaitley targeted the government for its failure to provide a forum for conciliation. Parliament is unable to discuss the aspirations of the two regions and, in the process, Indian democracy continues to get a bad name. "After me, the deluge," is what the UPA wants to leave behind, he said.
