9 years ago
New Delhi:
Parliament resumed yesterday for the second half of the budget session after a month-long recess. Day one was lost after multiple protests by the opposition and BJP ally Telugu Desam Party. While the opposition led by Congress shouted slogans and disrupted the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over the Nirav Modi-PNB fraud, the Telugu Desam Party or TDP protested both inside and outside parliament demanding a 'special status' for Andhra Pradesh. On day two, today, the Lok Sabha will debate cases of fraud and scams in the banking sector under Rule 193 which does not entail voting at the end of the discussion. The Congress has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament on steps being taken by him to bring back the accused in bank frauds, and alleged that the people's hard-earned money has been "looted" and sent offshore under a government which had promised to bring back the black money stashed abroad. Targeting PM Modi yesterday, leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and deputy leader Anand Sharma said the prime minister should "speak up" on the bank frauds.
