Declining Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar’s invitation to meet him on December 25, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who is not in the capital, in a letter said that the mass suspension of MPs was “premeditated” and “weaponised” by the ruling party to sabotage Parliamentary practices.
Mr. Kharge was replying to a second letter written by Mr. Dhankhar on Saturday inviting him for a meeting on December 25 saying that “we need to move ahead”. In the letter Mr. Dhankhar said that the disorder was “deliberate and strategised”.
While agreeing with the Chairman on the need to move ahead, Mr. Kharge said that a discussion in his chamber won’t resolve the problem “if the government is not keen on running the House”.
