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The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were both adjourned till noon. When both houses reassembled, Lok Sabha was again adjourned till 1 pm following noisy scenes.
Both houses of parliament were adjourned till Thursday after being repeatedly disrupted over the BJP's demand for a statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the missing files related to the allocation of coal blocks.
As soon as the Lok Sabha assembled at 11 a.m. Tuesday, the price rise issue was raised by the Left parties and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) forcing Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the house for half-an-hour.
When the house reassembled, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded a statement from the prime minister on the missing files relating to the coal blocks and alleged that the now untraceable documents carried names of Congress leaders.
"The prime minister should come in the house and clarify on the missing files. These files contain the names of Congress leaders involved and the decisions taken in the allocation of coal blocks," said Sushma Swaraj.
She urged Leader of the House and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who was back after two weeks after having undergone surgery, to bring the prime minister in the lower house.
The entire NDA, including BJP, JD-U and Shiv Sena members, protested on the issue and raised slogans against the government and there was complete chaos in the house even as the Communist Party of India-Marxist members continued to raise the issue of price rise and the Telugu Desam Party and Congress members protested against the decision to create Telangana.
As noisy scenes continued, the house was serially adjourned till noon, 1 pm, 2 pm and later for the day.
Wednesday is a holiday on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
Earlier, Defence Minister A.K. Antony made a statement on the sinking of submarine INS Sindhurakshak.
Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge also tabled a statement on the train accident in Bihar in which 28 people were killed.
Three bills related to first national aviation university and the first national women's university besides one on a civil aviation authority were introduced.
The Rajya Sabha was also repeatedly disrupted and adjourned till 2.30 pm over the missing files linked to the coal blocks.
As soon as the house assembled at 11 a.m., members of the BJP raised the issue of the missing files.
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the prime minister should make a statement on the issue. The house was first adjourned for 10 minutes on this issue.
When it met again, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal rose to make a statement following which BJP members disrupted the house again, forcing the chair to adjourn it till noon.
Jaiswal Saturday admitted that some files related to coal blocks allocations had gone missing.
The house was then adjourned till 2 pm, 2.30 pm and finally till Thursday as opposition members sought details of the missing files.
BJP ups the ante against PM over missing coal files, stalls Food Bill
New Delhi: On a day when the Congress was hoping to get the passed in the Lok Sabha, the BJP stepped up its attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the missing files in the coal scam. The BJP stalled both Houses of Parliament demanding that the Prime Minister makes a statement on the missing files.
This came even as Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal made a statement in the Rajya Sabha. The government said the Coal Minister is ready to make a statement in the Lok Sabha, too. However, the BJP demandeed that only the Prime Minister makes a statement on the .
"The Prime Minister should explain the House on the missing files. The Supreme Court has ordered that the concerned person hand over all the files to CBI and who is the concerned person? It is the PM who had the Coal Minsitry then, said Leader of the Opposition in Sushma Swaraj.
Sources now say that the Prime Minister is unlikely to make a statement on the missing files in Parlaiment. The Lok Sabha has been adjourned till Thursday. The government questioned the Opposition's motives in disrupting the House asking why they wanted the PM to speak on every issue.
The UPA was hopeful that its ambitious Food Security Bill will be passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The government had agreed to some amendments to win over key allies and spoke to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Telugu Desam Party, which has been constantly disrupting the House.
Earlier, in his statement in the , Jaiswal said he was ready to face any punishment if found guilty of the allegations. At the same time, he asked Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley as to what punishment he would undergo if the case was otherwise. "All efforts are being made to locate documents which are not readily available...My Ministry would leave no stone unturned in tracing and providing the documents sought by the CBI," he said, adding a total of 769 files and documents running into 1.5 lakh pages have been handed over to the investigating agency.
Raising the issue earlier, Jaitley said there are media reports that one of the beneficiaries of the coal block allocation was some body with whom the Coal Minister was related. He alleged that the files were not missing but made to have gone missing.
"If files relating to that allocation are missing, should he be making a statement on those files. I want to know from the Chair that on account of this conflict of interest, should he make the statement...If not direct, it is a case of indirect involvement," said Jaitley.
Replying to the opposition attack, Jaiswal conceded that some files are missing and hence an inter-Ministerial Committee headed by an additional secretary has been set up to look into the issue and any action will be taken only after its report. "The mandate given to the Committee is to examine and review non-availability of files/documents and suggest appropriate action," he said, adding the Committee has held two meetings and documents are being located.
Amid slogan shouting by , Jaiswal said some documents belonging to a period prior to 2004 are missing and alleged who had the interest in getting the files to pre-2004 period missing while pointing the needle of suspicion at NDA regime.
(With additional information from PTI)
Source: IbnLive,DNA,PTI