Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar walks out as opposition demands EPIC fraud discussion | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar walked out midway by enterprise advisory committee (BAC) of the Higher Home on Friday, over a standoff with opposition celebration leaders who insisted their points together with the “EPIC fraud” be taken up for discussion within the Home over the subsequent week, failing which the events wouldn’t “cooperate” in passing of Payments within the final week of the Funds session.
With opposition celebration leaders threatening “to not cooperate” with authorities enterprise, the final week of the price range session might get stormy. The treasury versus opposition standoff on the BAC on Friday has united the opposition towards the Chairman.
Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh, is learnt to have led the cost on behalf of opposition events –TMC, SP, DMK and others — at Friday’s BAC assembly of ground leaders, referred to as to determine on points to be taken up by the Home subsequent week.
Opposition leaders have conveyed to the Chairman that they’re versatile on guidelines below which discussion on EPIC could be held, as effectively as wording of the discover, however the discussion needs to be taken up, sources mentioned. TMC which has been elevating the difficulty persistently within the Home with a number of MPs giving notices on daily basis, has warned of protests if the controversy will not be taken up.
Rajya Sabha sources, nevertheless mentioned, the EPIC (Electors Picture Identification Card) problem was not mentioned and Dhankhar determined to walkout as authorities and opposition members refused to budge from their respective positions on points on the assembly.
Sources mentioned, opposition leaders on the assembly informed Dhankhar, that they’d been giving “each day notices” below varied guidelines, since Parliament opened for the second half of the price range session, to take up points like duplicate EPIC (Electors Picture Identification Card), Manipur scenario, scrutiny of payments, and so on within the Home and wished time to be allotted for debates on them.
When Dhankhar refused to commit on allotting time to debate the problems, Congress, TMC and different opposition leaders threatened to not cooperate with the treasury benches subsequent week for passing of payments, it’s learnt.
The chairman left in a huff resulting from disagreements between ruling and opposition members over the demand for a discussion on “duplicate” voter id numbers and sending payments for scrutiny by parliamentary committees, opposition sources mentioned.
Stressing that the opposition has supported authorities enterprise this session, but points they’re searching for to debate usually are not being listed, an opposition chief mentioned, that’s what sparked the standoff.