Opposition’s demand for dialogue on votebandi non-negotiable: Congress

The Congress on Wednesday, 6 August, mentioned the Opposition’s demand for a dialogue on the “votebandi” by the Election Fee is “non-negotiable” in each Homes of Parliament.

There was a logjam in Parliament over the particular intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, which the Opposition has alleged is being performed to chop votes forward of the state election.

Congress normal secretary in-charge, communications, Jairam Ramesh, mentioned the chair within the Rajya Sabha is a unbroken entity regardless of the comings and goings, scheduled and unscheduled.

“Yesterday, the deputy chairman gave a ruling that as a result of the Lok Sabha speaker had mentioned so on 14 December 1988, any matter regarding the Election Fee can’t be mentioned in Parliament. However on 21 July, 2023, the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, a Modi appointee, had categorically dominated that ‘the Rajya Sabha is entitled to debate something below the planet with just one restriction’,” Ramesh mentioned in a submit on X.

“He had gone on to say that the ‘just one restriction’ associated to the conduct of any choose besides on a movement associated to his elimination. The then-chairman had added that the idea of sub-judice was completely misconceived,” the Congress chief identified.