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Amid Opposition demand for discussion in Lok Sabha on FDI in retail under a rule which entails voting, the government today said an executive decision could not be a subject for debate under such a rule but asserted that it has the numbers to beat such a move.
“An executive decision cannot be a subject for debate under a rule that entails voting. It can be a subject matter of debate. But it doesn’t have to be under Rule 184 (which entails voting). Parliament ultimately must be made to run according to the rule book,” the Law Minister, Ashwani Kumar said outside Parliament House.
Asked whether the Opposition wanted to see the government’s defeat on the issue on the floor of the House, he said, “They are not going to succeed. We have the numbers with us.”
Criticising the Opposition for disrupting the proceedings of the House, the Minister said, “We have seen in every section of Parliament something or the other is raked up and an attempt is made to make Parliament dysfunctional.”
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