[1]The government on Saturday said Parliament was “ill-equipped” to probe 2G spectrum allocation and ruled out adjourning sine die the winter session of the House ahead of its scheduled end due to the logjam over the Opposition demand for JPC into the scam.
Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said the question of accepting JPC does not arise and termed the Opposition demand only a “political battle”.
“Their (the Opposition) demand for JPC is a political battle. They want to have a political weapon in their hands, which we will not allow,” Mr Bansal told reporters here.
He alleged the Opposition wanted to paralyse Parliament and destabilise the government. “They want to create a situation where the government cannot take policy decisions and implement them,” he said, adding: “Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who heads 30 GoMs and many EGoMs, has not been able to take meetings for a long time and even I (as Union water resources minister) have not been able to devote time in the wake of Parliament logjam,” Mr Bansal said.
Dismissing the demand for JPC as needless, he said the government was ready to give even four days for discussion to the Opposition to raise the 2G but they should first let Parliament function.
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