NEW DELHI: The Opposition Congress on Thursday said every Bill passed in the Budget session of Parliament’s second half would be challenged legally, especially the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill and the NCT Amendment Bill.
Insisting that it didn’t want the Budget session curtailed, the Congress today termed “panic privatisation by government a conspiracy to eliminate central quotas for SCs, STs and OBCs”. Congress chief whip in the Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh led the offensive saying every Bill passed in this Budget session would be challenged in the SC.
“I will personally challenge the Bill amending the Mines and Minerals Act, 1957. It violates the SC order declaring as illegal any mine that violates environment protection laws. The Bill does away with this definition” Ramesh said.
He questioned the lack of Central probe agencies oversight on the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development to be established through another Bill the Parliament cleared.
Ramesh accused the government of denying the opposition right to move any calling attention or short duration discussion in the concluded session. Earlier, Leader of Opposition in RS Mallikarjun Kharge questioned the PM’s absence in the session saying he was “busy campaigning”.