The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – which has been stalling Parliament for the past week over the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on coal block allocations – has been at its creative best coining new slogans everyday to slam the United Progressive Alliance government and disrupt the functioning of the House. One favourite is “Raja ke liye jail, Manmohan ke liye bail, Wah re wah, Congress kya hai yeh khel” (while A Raja is sent to jail, Manmohan Singh is given bail and the Congress is at its best playing games). Senior BJP leaders launch into these slogans and the rest of the BJP MPs join in as a chorus. Parliament debates, however, do not record any of these colourful interjections, merely reporting them as “interruptions”.
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