New Delhi, May 6 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday staged a protest before Parliament charging Union Government with misuse of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
It said the UPA Government was using the CBI in cases of disproportionate assets against several politicians.
The demonstration was staged in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue inside the Parliament complexes.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj alleged that the CBI is being used to target opposition parties.
“We were observing for many days that the CBI was working as an agent for the ruling party instead of being a just and independent body. It worked to defend the people of the ruling party and attack the people of the opposition parties,” Swaraj said.
“It was deliberately harassing some parties to please the ruling party. The biggest example of this was seen when cut motion was brought up in Parliament. So to protest against the conspiracy of the CBI against the opposition parties, we have staged the demonstration today, “ she added.
Leaders of the National Democratic Alliance and its members of both Houses of Parliament took part in the protest.
Earlier in the week, the BJP had accused the CBI of acting at the behest of the Central Government in the Gujarat’s Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The party also accused that the UPA Government was using the CBI to give a bad name to the democratically elected Narendra Modi Government of Gujarat.
The BJP had earlier alleged that government had misused the CBI to speed up or slow down disproportionate assets cases against Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. The three parties voted with the government in the recent cut motions moved by the BJP and Left parties. (ANI)
Mulayam”s remarks over Women”s Reservation Bill draw controversy
Lucknow, Mar 24 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav”s remarks over the Women”s Reservation Bill has angered different political outfits, as they now want an apology from him.
Yadav at a rally on Tuesday said that if the Women”s Reservation Bill would be passed in its present form, it would help women belonging to the families of industrialists and bureaucrats, who were of the kind youths would want to whistle at.
Women workers of the Samajwadi Party are not ready for this Bill, asserted Yadav, saying that they would get ready for a prolonged agitation soon.
Reacting to Yadav”s remarks, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said at least fun or insult should not be made of the female sections of our society.
“If this is indeed the comment, all I can say that your use of respectful words for all sections of society should increase with your political seniority and political experience,” said Singhvi.
“If you cannot do much for the female sections of our society, at least do not insult them, at least do not deride them, at least do not make fun of them,” he added.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson Subodh Srivastava said that making such derogatory and insulting comments against women and that too at a function organised on the birth centenary celebrations of Ram Manohar Lohia was an insult to the late socialist leader, who had been a great supporter of woman empowerment.
Srivastava too demanded an apology from Yadav.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), meanwhile, criticized Yadav”s comments, saying that it reflected his cheap and sick mentality.
“BSP strongly condemns irresponsible statement given by the SP chief that only women and girls of affluent class would get benefit of the women”s reservation and youths would pass comment on them,” said BSP state President Swami Prasad Maurya.
“Such a childish statement is unbecoming of a person, who had been the Chief Minister of the state and had been a Union Minister,” he added.
The Samajwadi Party supremo addressing his party workers said the Bill would benefit only those women belonging to the families of industrialists and bureaucrats, adding that not a single male would be elected to the Lok Sabha 10 years after the Bill comes into force
Yadav also advocated quota for the fairer sex within political parties asserting that it should be made mandatory to reserve 15 percent tickets to women. (ANI)