Sonia hits at BJP for disrupting Parliament

Hitting out at BJP for stalling Parliament, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today made it clear its wishes would not be fulfilled through its tactics and dared it for a debate on coal block allocation to separate “fact” from “fiction“.

Without naming BJP, she said some people are politicising every issue which was not helping the country facing several serious challenges such as inflation, drought, floods, social tensions besides impact of slowdown of global economy.

“Do we want to destroy this democratic system, which our ancestors, our freedom fighters after sacrificing their lives have gifted to us? Will this help the country? The solutions to the problems and the issues that are facing us today can only be found through discussion in Parliament,” Gandhi said while inaugurating a drinking water project here.

“Today, we face several serious challenges like the slowing down of global economy, which to a limited extent has affected us. Apart from this, we are faced by inflation, drought, floods, social tensions which are other problems,” Gandhi said.

To deal with all these problems, “we today need to rise above party lines to support each other. But sadly, some people, by politicising every issue, are busy in stalling the proceedings of Parliament.”

She spoke at a time when Parliament was stalled for the seventh consecutive day by BJP which is demanding resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over CAG report on coal block allocation.

“If someone thinks that either everything will happen according to their wishes or nothing will happen — then this cannot happen in a democracy,” she asserted.

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