The Congress that has used the Dalit issue to its advantage in both the houses also joined the chorus asking treasury benches and the deputy chairman PJ Kurien to immediate oust VK Singh from the house.
After facing several adjournments in Rajya Sabha, the deadlock between BJP and Congress ended on Thursday afternoon with power minister Piyush Goyal finally yielding to the pressure and expressing regret for making a controversial statement in the context of Congress MP Kumari Selja.
A day prior, Goyal had described Selja's personal experience of being asked her caste while visiting a Dwarka temple as "another incident of manufactured problem and manufactured discrimination" against which the "hurt" MP received the sympathy from almost the whole opposition leaving the house in a limbo.
But it did not end BJP woes on Dalit issue as soon after the BSP picked up the baton left by the Congress objecting at the presence of union minister V K Singh in the house. Attacking V K Singh for denigrating Dalits, BSP leader Satish Mishra said he cannot remain present in the house and unless he leaves, the house won't function.
The Congress that has used the Dalit issue to its advantage in both the houses also joined the chorus asking treasury benches and the deputy chairman P J Kurien to immediate oust V K Singh from the house.
"This house will not function till the time a person who has called Dalits as dogs, who has called journalists presstitutes and who has given a false affidavit in Supreme Court leaves," said a charged Congress MP, Pramod Tiwari.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi of BJP retorted that such a condition is not possible as V K Singh being a minister and an MP would continue to attend the parliament.
Ultimately, the Chennai flood situation came to the rescue of Kurien. Pitching it at an emotional level Kurien requested the members to pay attention to the urgent discussion on grave humanitarian crisis.
And the house finally fell in order.
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