‘Insulted’ by Venkaiah Naidu, Opposition troops out of LS

And about the Delhi verdict, Naidu said, “We need to examine why after winning in seven states we lost in Delhi… You (Congress) have been reduced to zero.”

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“The minister has every right to explain his position but does not have a right to insult others…We will not tolerate your insult,” Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said before walking out with CPM, Trinamool Congress and NCP members.

Naidu said it was he, in fact, who was being insulted as a minister. “People who are criticising the ordinance route have resorted to ordinances umpteen times,” he said.

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav claimed President Pranab Mukherjee was “unhappy” with the rush of ordinances and would have not addressed Parliament had he not been bound by the Constitution. He accused the NDA government of failing to keep its promises. “They have done nothing in nine months. Even a child is born in nine months,” he said. “Your slogan sabka saath, sabka vikas (development for all) is a lie. I want to know whether your pitch for development was limited to a select people… Did you not support only the industrialists by the ordinance? Was it meant to benefit the common man or farmer?”

Naidu claimed his government had ushered in development and brought down inflation. “In the other regime, they allowed bank accounts to be opened outside (foreign banks). In our regime, we have opened accounts inside the country,” he said, referring to the PM’s Jan Dhan Yojana.