Congress walks out of Lok Sabha over Arunachal

The Congress had handed in an adjournment notice to the Speaker over the Arunachal Pradesh crisis with Kharge talking of “malicious attempts being made by the Centre to destabilise elected state governments, undermine the Constitution and create apprehension among the people of the country.”

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“They coined this Congress-mukt Bharat slogan; so wherever they get a chance, they destabilise governments and try to bring in their own through the back door,” Kharge said, while accusing the BJP of having made similar attempts in Manipur and Himachal Pradesh. He also hailed the recent Supreme Court order reinstating the Congress government in Arunachal as a historic judgment written in ‘golden words’.

Singh responded to Kharge by stating that it is, in fact, the Congress that has the habit of destabilising popularly elected governments. “The Congress has done this 105 times. Disturbing healthy democracy is not the aim of this government. The crises in the two states happened due to the internal problems in the Congress party,” he said. Singh added that the BJP has nothing to do with the whole situation and that bickering within the Congress led to the imposition of President’s rule in both states. “If you place a boat with a hole in water then it will sink; there is no point blaming the water,” he said.

At this point, the Congress members stood up to raise their voice in protest, before staging a walkout.