Help pass Bills: Rahul to Oppn

New Delhi: Interacting with representatives from NGOs, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asked Opposition parties to fix a date to help government pass bills on which there is general consensus.

Some of the delegation members, raising the issue of the disbaled, said when they protest against non-passage of disability bill, water canons are used against them, prompting Gandhi to say "if they tell that they will you chase you away with water canons, you call me to sit with you there."

Leading the pack of NGOs, Nikhil Dey said he fails to understand what is the problem of political parties coming together to pass those bills on which there is a consensus.

"Political parties should fix a day and pass the non-contentious bills after the Vote on Account," Dey said.

Agreeing with the demand, Gandhi said "I will employ my full energy in passing these bills. I am with you and accept cent percent whatever you are saying. Your demands are right. Parliament should run and pass these bills...You continue to do what you are doing. Build public opinion for the bills.

Meanwhile, Gujarat CM and BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi alleged that the Centre was ignoring the state's repeated demand to install gates at the Sardar Sarovar dam.

"Forty years after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of the project, the state is still fighting for the installation of gates at Narmada dam, only because of non-cooperation from the Congress government at Centre," Modi said here today.

He addressed a farmers' rally after laying the foundation stone of the ambitious Rs 10,000 crore Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation project, which will take Narmada water to 115 dams and reservoirs in Saurashtra.