Dangerous if BJP keeps Speaker post: AAP

Flagging the possibility of horse-trading and violation of Constitutional provisions, AAP MP Sanjay Singh said Saturday that a BJP Speaker in the new Lok Sabha would be “dangerous for parliamentary traditions”. The post, he said, should be held by the TDP, the NDA’s second biggest member with 16 MPs.

Singh’s remarks came a day before the NDA was set to form government at the Centre for a third straight term. BJP, 32 seats below majority mark, will need the support of its allies, especially Andhra Pradesh CM-designate Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U).

“Never in the Parliamentary history of the country were more than 150 MPs suspended, but the BJP did it… So, if the Speaker is from BJP, bills will be passed in arbitrary manner by violating the Constitution, parties like TDP, JD(U) and other small parties will be broken and forced to join (the BJP). BJP has a history of that,” Singh, a Rajya Sabha member the party’s in-charge for UP, told reporters in Lucknow.