Coming down heavily on the Opposition for not participating in the discussion on the Manipur issue and disrupting the Parliament, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday that the Opposition is just shedding crocodile tears as they consider Manipur a political issue.
“Opposition doesn’t want to participate in the discussion on the Manipur issue. Today, when this issue was taken up in Parliament, the Opposition ran away from the discussion. Saddened by the behaviour of the Opposition. Manipur is just a political issue for them (the Opposition),” Nirmala Sitharaman said. She said the government has agreed to discuss the Manipur ethnic violence in parliament, but the Opposition has not allowed that to happen.
“They have been demanding discussion even under 176. The names of the Opposition leaders that are being followed in today’s list of business and for your sack, I recall the names: John Brittas, AD Singh, all respectable honarable members Professor Manoj Kumar Jha, Fouzia Khan, AA Rahim, Rajeet Ranjan, GC Chandrashekar, Phoolan Devi Netam, and Elamaram Kareem.
