Ready for no-trust move, says minister

NEW DELHI: Pandemonium in Lok Sabha continued on Wednesday too as AIADMK members raised slogans in the Well of the House demanding setting up of the Cauvery Water Management Board to implement water-sharing agreement between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as a result of which the no-confidence motion moved by several Opposition parties could not be taken up.

With the protesters showing no signs of calming down, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan ruled the first adjournment just three minutes into the morning session, while the second adjou-rnment was ordered less than 10 minutes into the noon session.   

Taking the attack into the Opposition camps, parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar blamed the Congress for the stalemate.

“They (Opposition MPs) tried to ridicule the functioning of Parliament by holding placards right from the beginning and creating a ruckus. It is the style of Shri Rahul Gandhi to try to ridicule country’s politics. This won’t yield anything,” the Union minister told reporters.

Mr Kumar claimed that the Opposition lack the numbers to move the motion and wanted show people that “they can achieve something without the numbers”.

“The people will give a befitting reply across the country, including Karnataka, for the way they have stalled functioning of Parliament, created a ruckus and ridiculed the process of a no-confidence motion,” he added.

“We are ready for the no-confidence motion whenever the House in the order,” Mr Kumar said.