The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday rejected the government's accusation of an “unholy alliance'' between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Left parties to destabilise it. The CPI(M) charged the Congress-led UPA government with “obdurately'' jettisoning the winter session of Parliament.
“After not being able to come out with a solution to break the logjam in Parliament, the government is desperate to score political points,'' CPI(M) Rajya Sabha leader Sitaram Yechury told The Hindu .
Mr. Yechury was commenting on the remarks by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Bansal on the stalemate in Parliament that resulted in the session being a washout.
“The sole design of the BJP and its unholy alliance with the Left is to destabilise the government and create difficulties in its working for ulterior objectives and not to stem corruption in the polity,” Mr. Bansal said.
“Massive manipulation”
Earlier, in an editorial in the latest edition of party organ People's Democracy , the CPI(M) leader said the insistence on a JPC was because it was not merely graft in terms of siphoning off revenues due to the government but one that involved a “massive manipulation of our system that permits such a loot to take place.”
On the contrary, the editorial said that by not allowing Parliament to perform its duties, the government was seriously undermining the foundations of the country's constitutional scheme of things, where the executive was accountable to the legislature, which in turn was accountable to people.
“By jettisoning Parliament, the government is escaping from being accountable and, at the same time, eroding, both in letter and spirit, this constitutional scheme. This is a very grave matter that strikes at the very foundations of our Republican constitution and parliamentary democracy,” the editorial said.
The CPI(M) also re-iterated the charge that the BJP was indulging in “double speak.” On the one hand, it was demanding a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum allocation and on the other it was standing up in defence of its government in Karnataka. In addition, one of its former presidents, Murli Manohar Joshi, had begun investigations into the CAG report on spectrum allocation as the head of the Public Accounts Committee, the editorial said.
