Winter session: Both Houses adjourned till Tuesday
feature, Nation 03:56
As Lok Sabha assembled for the day, Speaker Meira Kumar offered tributes to those who had lost their lives in the Mumbai terror attack on this day four years ago.
She emphasised the need for rooting out terrorism and lauded the role of security forces.
The members then stood in silence to pay respect to those killed in the 26/11 attacks. Soon thereafter, BJP members raised the issue of FDI in retail and shouted "take back the FDI decision".
Trinamool Congress members trooped into the Well with placards demanding subsidy in LPG cylinders and shouted slogans.
Some members from Andhra Pradesh were seen holding placards demanding a Telangana statehood bill. With the uproar continuing, the Speaker adjourned the House till noon.
In the Rajya Sabha, soon after the House paid homage to the victims of the Mumbai attacks, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu raised the issue of FDI and was joined by other party colleagues. Naidu said his party has given notice to suspend the Question Hour to discuss the FDI issue.
BSP and SP members too raised slogans against FDI in multi-brand retail. BSP demanded the decision be taken back. All the while Trinamool members were on their feet.
As repeated appeals for normalcy went unheeded, Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the House till noon.
2G spectrum issue: DMK gives notice for discussion in LS
The DMK gave notice for a discussion in Lok Sabha on the 2G spectrum issue, on which it had come under a lot of flak, in the wake of claims made by former CAG official R P Singh.
DMK leader T R Baalu on Monday has given the notice for a special discussion, saying the reports appearing in the media showed that the loss figure in the 2G issue had been inflated exponentially.
In the notice, Baalu said this developments put the entire issue in a new light which calls for "thorough discussion into the audit practices and constitutional mandate of the CAG".
Baalu's action comes close on the heels of Union Minister V Narayanasamy's remarks that the Centre was ready for a discussion in Parliament on the statement of R P Singh on the 2G spectrum allocations issue, if key ally DMK brings forward a motion.
The former CAG official had claimed that his superiors gave him written order following which he signed on the final report giving a presumptive loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.
It also comes against the backdrop of Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad meeting with DMK chief M Karunanidhi in Chennai on Sunday during which the Health Minister had tried to persuade DMK to support the government on the FDI in retail issue.
DMK had come under lot of pressure in the wake of the 2G scam and the then Telecom Minister A Raja had to resign in the wake of the controversy and was also arrested.
Karunanidhi had last week strongly pitched for a multi-member CAG, saying the recent flopped auction of 2G spectrum that netted only about Rs 9,000 crore had proved wrong the top auditor's report pegging the presumptive loss in 2G allocation.
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