New Delhi, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) The major Indian parties are meeting today to discuss the impasse in parliamentary sessions by the clash between the ultra-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposition sectors.
Convened by the government, the meeting will be held amid increasing criticism from both parties, which bodes an unlikely understanding to reopen the doors of the legislature.
We have no objection in talking to end this situation, but talks should be focused on the resignation of three BJP leaders, warned yesterday the leader of the Indian National Congress in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House), Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Congress and some other left-wing parties are demanding resignations of External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, and Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh Chief Ministers, Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, respectively.
Swaraj recently admitted that she intervened only on "humanitarian grounds" with the British authorities in favor of the former head of the Indian Premier League of cricket, Lalit Modi, who lives in London, so he could travel to Portugal, despite being a fugitive from national justice by money laundering.
Raje, also linked to Modi, and Singh Chouhan, accused of selling positions in the Madhya Pradesh administration, are under fire from the opposition.
Complaints against the heads of state government are not the parliamentâ�Ös responsibility, but their respective territories, said Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are responsible for the interruption of the proceedings in parliament, denounced the Minister for Environment and Forest, Prakash Javadekar, referring to the president and vice president of Congress.
Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, called this group to abandon its obstructionist tendencies by stating that they inflict an economic injury on the country.
Jaitley should end his sermons and reflect before apologizing for the behavior of the BJP, hit back Anand Sharma, deputy head of Congress in the Senate.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, M. Venkaiah Naidu ruled out the resignation of the three accused by defending their innocence, and called for a debate to discuss the issue.