Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister H.D. Gowda Expressed displeasure over the uncontrolled scenes and the recently concluded destruction in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday Parliament Sessions without any debate on issues affecting the people, saying he had never seen anything like it in his 30 years as an MP.
Gowda said that after the end of the monsoon session on August 11, he met opposition leaders and asked them what they had achieved as none of the issues affecting the people were discussed. “Due to the uproar by members of the ruling and opposition parties, I was not allowed to speak during the monsoon session. No work was done and the session was ruined,” the JD(S) leader told reporters at the party office.
On the unruly behavior of the MPs in the Rajya Sabha, he said, “I hate the behavior of the members of the ruling party as well as the opposition. People used to dance at the table in the well of the house. In my 30 years as an MP, I have done like this. Never seen any incident of that.” He said that such behavior was not good for the society as it shows the fall of democratic values and is an insult to the great people who fought for the country’s freedom.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on August 4 suspended four TMC MPs for the rest of the day for creating a ruckus over the Pegasus espionage issue. Gowda said his party would launch a state-wide campaign to resolve water disputes in the state, including the Krishna and Mahadayi rivers and the Mekedatu balance reservoir project, after the assembly session concludes on September 24. .
He said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai spoke to the NCP chief Sharad Pawar and other BJP leaders tried to find a solution to the Krishna and Mahadayi water sharing dispute between the state and Maharashtra. Regarding the Mekedatu issue, he said some leaders from Tamil Nadu who spoke to him had advocated a reservoir on the Kaveri river at Hogenakkal on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border and not Mekedatu in Ramanagara district.
“A reservoir in Hogenakkal would mean enclosing a large catchment area whereas in Mekedatu, the catchment area is smaller,” Gowda said.
The former PM said that only a regional organization like JD(S) can find a solution to these two river water disputes, not a national party. He said Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Needed to ‘walk the extra mile’ to hone his political skills and wondered what he had achieved by recently holding a cycle rally to protest the hike in fuel prices. Asked about his recent meeting with Bommai, Gowda said he has assured him of support on various issues.
Gowda said that after the end of the monsoon session on August 11, he met opposition leaders and asked them what they had achieved as none of the issues affecting the people were discussed. “Due to the uproar by members of the ruling and opposition parties, I was not allowed to speak during the monsoon session. No work was done and the session was ruined,” the JD(S) leader told reporters at the party office.
On the unruly behavior of the MPs in the Rajya Sabha, he said, “I hate the behavior of the members of the ruling party as well as the opposition. People used to dance at the table in the well of the house. In my 30 years as an MP, I have done like this. Never seen any incident of that.” He said that such behavior was not good for the society as it shows the fall of democratic values and is an insult to the great people who fought for the country’s freedom.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on August 4 suspended four TMC MPs for the rest of the day for creating a ruckus over the Pegasus espionage issue. Gowda said his party would launch a state-wide campaign to resolve water disputes in the state, including the Krishna and Mahadayi rivers and the Mekedatu balance reservoir project, after the assembly session concludes on September 24. .
He said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai spoke to the NCP chief Sharad Pawar and other BJP leaders tried to find a solution to the Krishna and Mahadayi water sharing dispute between the state and Maharashtra. Regarding the Mekedatu issue, he said some leaders from Tamil Nadu who spoke to him had advocated a reservoir on the Kaveri river at Hogenakkal on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border and not Mekedatu in Ramanagara district.
“A reservoir in Hogenakkal would mean enclosing a large catchment area whereas in Mekedatu, the catchment area is smaller,” Gowda said.
The former PM said that only a regional organization like JD(S) can find a solution to these two river water disputes, not a national party. He said Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Needed to ‘walk the extra mile’ to hone his political skills and wondered what he had achieved by recently holding a cycle rally to protest the hike in fuel prices. Asked about his recent meeting with Bommai, Gowda said he has assured him of support on various issues.
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