Sangma slams door on political farce

Sangma took matters in his own hands after putting up with three days of uproarious scenes and unruly behaviour in the Lower House.

With no perceptible end in sight to the political stalemate between the ruling United Front and the Congress, Sangma told the warring members that with “a lot of pain and anguish” he was adjourning the House.

From the time the Lok Sabha assembled this morning, it was clear that the Congress and DMK were hellbent on disrupting the proceedings of the House.In what has now become almost a reflex action, as soon as the Speaker announced that Question Hour would begin, Congress members were on their feet calling for the removal of the three DMK ministers in the UF government for their “indictment” by the Jain Commission probing Rajiv Gandhi’s killing. This raised the ire of the DMK members who began shouting in unison calling for the tabling of the Thakkar Commission report which went into the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

The shouting match continued unabated with Sangma’s frequent pleas falling on deaf ears.

Congress leader Sharad Pawar’s intervention that the Congress would not allow the government to conduct any business in the House as the United Front had “lost its legitimacy” was seen as a signal by his party members to keep up the decibel level.

The Bharatiya Janata Party members watched the entire scenario with wry amusement, till Janata Dal President Sharad Yadav suggested that the motion pending in the House on the happenings in Uttar Pradesh could be discussed while the UF and the Congress sorted out their differences. At this the BJP members too voiced their vehement protests.