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BSP`s demand for dismissal of Jagmohan rocks LS
New Delhi, July 29: Coalition partner BSP`s demand for dismissal of Tourism Minister Jagmohan for allegedly `misleading` the entire nation on the controversial Taj heritage corridor project today rocked Lok Sabha, forcing its adjournment for the day.
New Delhi, July 29: Coalition partner BSP's demand for dismissal of Tourism Minister Jagmohan for allegedly "misleading" the entire nation on the controversial Taj heritage corridor project today rocked Lok Sabha, forcing its adjournment for the day.
Causing a big embarrassment to the ruling BJP, which they support in Delhi, the Bahujan Samaj Party members were up in arms since morning on the issue when the house assembled for the day demanding Jagmohan's sack.
BSP members rushed to the well of the house and kept up the "dismiss Jagmohan chant".
Alleging that Jagmohan had misled the entire nation by giving an impression that the work on the project was stopped by the Centre, BSP leader Rashid Alvi said the fact was that it was the Chief Minister Mayawati who did it and ordered a probe into it. The trouble started immediately after Speaker Manohar Joshi rejected his notice after listening to him for a few minutes.
The house was adjourned twice following pandemonium with BSP members in the well before the speaker called it a day during the post-lunch session.
BJP chief whip V K Malhotra ruled out dismissal of the Tourism Minister saying storming of the well by the BSP members would not in any way influence the government. "The question of dismissal of Jagmohan does not arise", he said repeatedly. The matter briefly cropped up during question hour in Rajya Sabha where Jagmohan asserted no clearance was given for the project by his ministry or the environment ministry.
Ruling out Jagmohan's removal, party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters that Vajpayee told the Chief Minister that to ask a minister to resign was the prerogative of the Prime Minister and she cannot ask for it.
Expressing unhappiness over Mayawati's style of functioning, Vajpayee told her that "this is not the way to run a coalition."
Malhotra said that some bjp MPs went to Prime Minister and told that this kind of developments in the state was a daily happening and felt that strict action be taken in this matter. The MPs were annoyed that even after the Prime Minister asked the BSP members not to raise the issue in the house, they had done so and such action cannot be allowed to take place.
They said that BJP MPs and MLAs were not being accorded the treatment due to them and that it is time serious note was taken of this attitude of the BSP-led government.
Bureau Report
BSP members rushed to the well of the house and kept up the "dismiss Jagmohan chant".
Alleging that Jagmohan had misled the entire nation by giving an impression that the work on the project was stopped by the Centre, BSP leader Rashid Alvi said the fact was that it was the Chief Minister Mayawati who did it and ordered a probe into it. The trouble started immediately after Speaker Manohar Joshi rejected his notice after listening to him for a few minutes.
The house was adjourned twice following pandemonium with BSP members in the well before the speaker called it a day during the post-lunch session.
BJP chief whip V K Malhotra ruled out dismissal of the Tourism Minister saying storming of the well by the BSP members would not in any way influence the government. "The question of dismissal of Jagmohan does not arise", he said repeatedly. The matter briefly cropped up during question hour in Rajya Sabha where Jagmohan asserted no clearance was given for the project by his ministry or the environment ministry.
Ruling out Jagmohan's removal, party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters that Vajpayee told the Chief Minister that to ask a minister to resign was the prerogative of the Prime Minister and she cannot ask for it.
Expressing unhappiness over Mayawati's style of functioning, Vajpayee told her that "this is not the way to run a coalition."
Malhotra said that some bjp MPs went to Prime Minister and told that this kind of developments in the state was a daily happening and felt that strict action be taken in this matter. The MPs were annoyed that even after the Prime Minister asked the BSP members not to raise the issue in the house, they had done so and such action cannot be allowed to take place.
They said that BJP MPs and MLAs were not being accorded the treatment due to them and that it is time serious note was taken of this attitude of the BSP-led government.
Bureau Report