Sukhbir urges Prez to convene Parliament session

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 18

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal today sought the President’s intervention for immediately convening the winter session of Parliament.

The SAD president, who had voted against the three controversial Bills, today wrote to the President, saying that “the excuse of the Covid-19 argument to justify the cancellation of the winter session is not acceptable.”

In his letter, copies of which have been marked to the Speaker, Lok Sabha and to the Vice President, the Akali leader said, “It is absurd and ironical that the ruling party sees no danger to public health during gatherings of thousands of people in its election rallies in Bihar and now in West Bengal but wants the countrymen to believe that even a limited meeting of Members of Parliament under strict SOPs would result in a pandemic flare up? There is no lockdown on BJP rallies, but there is a lockdown on Parliament comprising just a few hundred members, and that too under controlled circumstances. The Covid excuse is patently fake and even ridiculous.”

Describing the government’s attitude as a case of “historic blunder,” he said, “The ruling party’s adamant attitude to listen to the country’s ‘annadata’ and to let them die within a few hundred yards of Parliament would be remembered in history as a case of a heartless and conscience-less government at war with its own people?”