After GST, Modi dispensation unveils GSD - Govt Sponsored Disruption: TMC

After the GST, the Modi dispensation has now brought in "GSD -- government-sponsored disruption" in Parliament, the Trinamool Congress said today after unabated protests virtually washed out a tumultuous budget session.

It said that unless the government addressed the issues of special category status for Andhra Pradesh, establishment of the Cauvery Management Board and rising atrocities against Dalits, the monsoon session too could be disrupted.

Lashing out at the government for not allowing the opposition voice to be heard in Parliament, the TMC today accused the Modi dispensation of instigating the AIADMK to disrupt proceedings.

"After GST, this is GSD -- government-sponsored disruption. They put forward the AIADMK. Not a single political party other than the AIADMK went to the well of the House...Unless the government addresses issues like the special status for Andhra Pradesh, Cauvery issue or Dalit atrocities or bank scams within the next two months. it would not go well for the monsoon session," TMC MP Derek O'Brien to reporters.

Ridiculing the decision of the BJP members of not taking the salary for 23 days of the session which ended today, the opposition party said that by doing so the ruling party was only shirking off their responsibility.

"People don't come to Parliament for taking their salaries, they have their responsibility. It is like saying that if a guard does not do his duty and the house gets robbed and then the guard comes back and refuses to take his salary.

"You are adding insult to injury. This is the biggest insult one can think about that by not taking their salary You have abdicated all your responsibilities," TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi said.

Both Houses of Parliament were today adjourned sine die, with unabated protests virtually washing out a tumultuous Budget Session that saw a total of nearly 250 working hours wasted.

Merely five of 19 starred questions were replied to orally by Ministers in the Rajya Sabha, while 17 of the 580 such questions were answered in the Lok Sabha during the 29 sittings.