Red Card to Referee? ; Somnath Chatterjee Finds Himself in the Line of Opposition Fire. Worse, the Nda Is Working On a No-Trust Motion Against Him.
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On July 25, the day after Parliament began the monsoon session, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who turned 77, was greeted by all sections of the House in wishing him a happy birthday and a long life. Looking down from the speaker's podium, he told the MPs, "thank you but I hope life isn't really that long."
The bonhomie did not last very long. Last week, when MPs from the BJP and its NDA allies ran to the well of the House shouting slogans against the Congress and the UPA Government, Chatterjee, a Parliament veteran for over 35 years, said, "I'm ashamed to be here now." After almost 20 minutes of sloganeering over the Pathak Committee report's leak to the media allegedly from the Prime Minister's Office, the protesting members had to leave because the House had been adjourned.See the full content of this document
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Red Card to Referee? ; Somnath Chatterjee Finds Himself in the Line of Opposition Fire. Worse, the Nda Is Working On a No-Trust Motion Against Him.
Adjournments, disruptions, chaos and battles of words-everything short of fisticuffs-have characterised the session so far...
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