| Nuke Deal: Row continues, LS adjourned |
| Press Trust of India / New Delhi September 7, 2007 |
| The Lok Sabha was stalled again today - the third day in a row - after uproar over the Indo-US nuclear deal. The house will assemble again at 2 p.m. Updated at 1120 hrs: BJP today stuck to its stand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Indo-US nuclear deal indicating it would not allow Parliament to function for another day over the issue. "Our position remains the same. We have received no proposals from the government in connection with our demand for a JPC and voting in both the houses on the nuclear accord," Vijay Kumar Malhotra told PTI after an NDA meeting chaired by former deputy Prime Minister L K Advani. "We will press for our demand again," he said a day after the NDA stalled Parliament seeking the setting up of a JPC on the 123 agreement. Yesterday, his party colleague Sushma Swaraj insisted that the NDA would force the government to accept its demand for a JPC. "We will get it done," Swaraj said, recalling that joint parliamentary committees were finally set up on the Bofors deal and the security scam after initial refusal by the then government. "Nothing is categorical in Parliament. It's a war of nerves," Swaraj said when reminded about the government's rejection of the NDA's call. "We do not consider (the government's response) to be categorical". Swaraj said BJP has asked the government to spell out what objections it could have in setting up a JPC on the nuclear accord. Updated on September 6, 1800 hrs: Parliamentary proceedings were stalled again today by the opposition over the government |
