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New Delhi: Pushed to virtual irrelevance by the governments brute majority in the past decade, a resurgent Opposition Wednesday leveraged its renewed numerical strength to take thinly veiled digs at newly re-elected Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for how they were treated in the previous House...
From Rahul Gandhis reference to non-democratic idea of silencing the Oppositions voice to Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyays remark about bowing before the ruling party, the opposition MPs minced no words in expressing their disapproval with the functioning of the previous House..
Birla snapped a few times as the INDIA bloc MPs picked up instances from the 17th Lok Sabha to make their point, but the battle lines were further drawn once he read out a resolution condemning the Emergency, as the Opposition saw it as a sign of continuity of him toeing the governments confrontational line of action...
We appreciate the determination of all those people who opposed the Emergency, fought and fulfilled the responsibility of protecting Indias democracy. 25 June 1975 will always be known as a black chapter in the history of India, Birla said.. Earlier in the day, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi said Birla was the final arbiter of the peoples voice that the Lok Sabha represents..
The idea that you can run the House efficiently by silencing the voice of the opposition is a non-democratic idea and this election has shown that the people of India expect the Opposition to defend the Constitution of this country, and we are confident that by allowing the Opposition to speak, by allowing us to represent the people of India, you will do your duty of defending the Constitution of India, Rahul said.. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, senior TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, DMK veteran T.R..
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