NEW DELHI: The BJP today accused the Congress and the Trinamool Congress of “murdering democracy” by not letting its president Amit Shah speak in Parliament on the issue of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam with their noisy protests.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar also asked the Congress and its former president Sonia Gandhi to make their stand clear on the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the country.
The TMC, he told a press conference, was nervous due to growing strength of the BJP in West Bengal.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said it was a new low for parliamentary democracy that opposition members did not allow Shah to speak. “This is a new precedent and a new low,” he told reporters.
Javadekar hit out at the opposition after its members began protesting when Shah rose to speak in the Rajya Sabha, forcing its adjournment for the day. (AGENCIES)
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