BJP's demand for JPC unacceptable: CPI(M)

NEW DELHI: The CPI(M) on Wednesday lashed out at the BJP for disrupting the proceedings of Parliament on 'flimsy grounds' and wondered whether the main opposition party was trying to scuttle a debate in the House on the Sachar panel findings.

Amid speculation about moves to curtail the Monsoon session, the Left party said it was not party to any such plans and opposed the BJP's demand for constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to go into the Indo-US nuclear deal as 'unacceptable'.

"The BJP's demand is quite impossible, impractical and cannot be accepted by the government," CPI(M) leader in Lok Sabha Basudev Acharia said while noting that Parliament has no authority to scrutinise the deal.

"They also know very well that in case of international treaty and agreements there is no scope for Parliament for its ratification, JPC is mini-Parliament," he said, adding the Left parties have been pushing for a constitutional amendment to empower Parliament to have such authority.

Attacking the BJP, CPI(M)'s Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Mohd Salim said the saffron party had repeatedly disrupted proceedings and forced an early adjournment of the session last time also when the Parliament was to discuss the Sachar Committee issue.

"We waited for nine months. We need to have a discussion," he said while attacking the government for not implementing the findings of the Sachar Committee. The Action Taken Report tabled in the House has 'nothing substantive,' he added.