The BJP hit back saying the Union minister belonged to a party which had imposed emergency in 1975.
During the sparring, the Opposition stuck to its demand for cancellation of all the 142 blocks while the ruling party rejected it saying that it would spell disaster for the country's economy and common man.
Holding that the BJP was not bothered about the country's development and only desperate to come to power, Sibal alleged that the "same ideology" that led to assassination of Mahatma Gandhi is now up to "killing democracy".
He also accused Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley of "selective amnesia" by citing a number of reported statements by him and other BJP leaders slamming the CAG in past.
Hitting back, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said that Sibal is known for lowering the level of the discourse.
"Kapil Sibal is known for taking the standard of debate to the lowest level. Everytime you will see that he has taken the level of discourse to a new low. He has reduced the level of the debate to the lowest level.
"If he is talking about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, a point which we have always denied and which has been proven by courts of law, then it is not the pursuit of truth that he is indulging in, he is indulging in pure abuse. And for him to compare this and say that we are murdering democracy, I would like to remind Sibal that he is a member of the party which indeed had murdered democracy by imposing emergency in this country in 1975," Sinha said. (MORE)
