Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 31 said that the Opposition, and their shedding of “crocodile tears”, had been exposed to the public by their refusal to discuss Manipur in Parliament, despite a discussion being listed in the Rajya Sabha.
“We have been hearing again and again from the Opposition that the government is not ready to discuss Manipur. But today, when a discussion had been scheduled and the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha had also said a discussion will happen, the Opposition, which hasn’t spoken of anything other than a discussion on Manipur, ran away,” Ms. Sitharaman said at a press briefing outside Parliament.
She also named Opposition MPs, including John Brittas of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Manoj Jha of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), G.C. Chandrashekhar of the Congress, Fauzia Khan of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Elamaram Kareem of the CPI(M) from a list of 20 MPs, both Treasury and Opposition, who had sent notices asking for a discussion on Manipur under Rule 176 of the Rules of Business.
