The district unit of JD(S) has questioned the continued silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on various controversies haunting his government while describing the suspension of 25 Congress MPs by the Lok Sabha Speaker, Sumitra Mahajan, as “undemocratic” and Bharatiya Janata Party’s typical response to criticism.
In a release issued here on Wednesday, JD(S) district general secretary Yusuf A. Athani said the Modi government’s “adamant and dictatorial” attitude was not unusual. The former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, was not allowed in Parliament to discuss farmers’ suicides in Karnataka, forcing the JD(S) to protest outside Parliament House against the ‘undemocratic’ style of governance of the BJP Government.
Disruption of the Parliament session even at the drop of hat has been the culture set by BJP when it was sitting in the Opposition. It repeatedly disrupted proceedings on the coal and other scams during UPA rule till the Coal Minister resigned. But the same BJP had turned defensive on the Vyapam scam and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s links with IPL-scam tainted Lalit Modi, Mr. Athani said.
“Why is Mr. Modi not uttering a single word on these scams and why it doesn’t form part of his ‘Mann ki Baat’, even while he has been claiming to root out corruption and corrupt practices in his government,” Mr. Athani asked, stating every voter who voted the BJP to power was now disillusioned over Mr. Modi’s volte face on his assurances to the nation that he would give a corruption-free government.
