New Delhi: ‘No, no, no’ Opposition MPs claimed that this is the repeated phrase they receive from Speaker Om Birla when they want to raise important issues in the Lok Sabha.
Speaking during a debate in the House on the decision to remove Birla as Speaker, several opposition MPs claimed that they were not getting the protection they should have from the President and that disruption of their speech by the treasury benches had become the norm.
“I must say with regret that, for some time now, the Chair has ceased to represent the independence of the Assembly but has become a symbol of the tyranny of the ruling party. The Chair has lost that neutrality which was expected by Nehru Ji and other makers of our Constitution,” RJD’s Abhay Kumar Sinha said.
“This House witnessed the black day when more than 140 MPs were suspended in a single day. True democracy is a democracy where even the poorest and weakest people feel that their voices can be heard… Here, when an MP stands up to speak, what he gets from this side is no, no, no,” Sinha said on Wednesday.
JMM’s Vijay Kumar Hansdak said this is the second term of the Speaker and the most uttered word in the Assembly after Nehru is ‘no’.
“When opposition MPs speak, they are disturbed, and this has become a tradition,” Handsack said. “Another tradition is that while the MPs are speaking, the camera moves in another direction.”
Speaking about the resolution on Tuesday, NCP’s Bajrang Manohar Sonawane said: “No one is making any personal attack on Birla ji. We all know what will happen in the vote, but we brought this no-confidence vote to highlight the democratic rights we have.”
“Like a table fan, it provides cooling from one side only… When Birla ji looks right, he smiles and when he looks at the other side, ‘No, no, no.'” You are doing the same, my party has given me time to speak,” he said addressing Sandhya Rai, who was sitting on the chair.
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