Chennai: The ruling BJP’s upper class fascist face and hate politics had been exposed by the denigration of B R Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, by none other than the Union Home Minister even as the 75th anniversary of the same Constitution was being celebrated, Chief Minister M K Stalin said.
Applauding the sterling performance of his party MPs raising a plethora of issues concerning the State’s rights and people’s welfare in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha during the just concluded winter session, held from November 25 to December 19, Stalin, in a statement on Saturday said that the DMK had set an example for parties in other States.
Exulting over the entire nation looking with awe at the DMK members, who raised issues and drew the attention of all when the ruling BJP was more keen on paralyzing the functioning of Parliament and ensuring that there were no discussions on the failures of the union government, he said .
Attributing the exemplary manner in which DMK members participated in the debates to the Dravidian movement’s century old tradition and the mentoring by leaders like M Karunanidhi, Stalin regretted that the standard of the Parliamentary proceedings had deteriorated in general but felt happy that the DMK had salvaged it to some extent.
Though data provided by the Parliamentary Affairs Department had said that the winter session saw the Lok Sabha functioning constructively only for 54.5 percent and Rajya Sabha 40 per cent, DMK MPs had made the nation talk about the party’s stand on a wide range of issues because they did not fail to discharge their democratic duties even amidst the prevailing pandemonium.
Stalin praised party members T R Baalu who tore into the proposal for a ‘One Nation, One Election’ legislation, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi for her fiery speeches demanding cancellation of license for tungsten mining in Madurai district and opposing the amendment to the Disaster Management Law, Trichi Siva was pointing out the Prime Minister was skipping Parliament and A Raja for his intellectually inspiring speech on the Constitutional nuances among others.
The DMK members’ performance was a slap in the face of those who asked that the MP’s would do in Parliament when the party swept the Lok Sabha elections winning all the 40 seats, he said and listed out more than a score of key issues were raised like a demand for diversity in judiciary, condemning the High Court judge who made a communal speech, expedition of highway projects in the State, on the state of airports and so on.
The MPs had also demanded the increasing of wages under NREGA and also raising the number of workdays to 150 a year and flayed the Union Government for the step motherly treatment meted out to the State. They had also questioned the Union Government as to why funds were cut for the conduct of archeological surveys in the State, the Chief Minister said.
