Won't let Congress succeed in plan to stall House: Kiren Rijiju

NEW DELHI: Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday hit out at the INDIA bloc for intentionally disrupting PM Modi's speeches in both Houses of Parliament.
Congress and other parties were allocated adequate time to raise all issues during the discussion on the motion of thanks on the President's address and yet they chose to disrupt the PM's reply in both Houses, he told reporters.
"Some interruptions during the speech are okay but disrupting the entire two-hour speech of the Prime Minister by raising slogans is definitely not done. This has never happened," Rijiju said.
The minister said the govt will never allow the Congress strategy to stall Parliament proceedings to succeed. "We will continue to run the House as per rules," he said.
Rijiju said the next session of Parliament, expected to begin in the last week of July, will be a fresh session when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the general budget.