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have come to the House and announced his full faith and trust on the Minister. Smt. Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal) referring to the disruption of proceedings said 40 Members disrupted the Session in such a way that she, as a new member, felt that all the rights in democracy rested with the opposition and the ruling party had nothing. The entire country came to know that the Congress party was opposing merely to oppose and there was no content in their allegations.
Shri Dushyant Chautala (INLD) believed that a number of people were involved in this IPL scam and inquiry should be conducted against them.
Shri N.K. Premachandran (RSP) said the External Affairs Minister must resign at the earliest in order to uphold the principles of democracy.
Shri Chirag Paswan (LJP) said Smt. Sushma Swaraj was a source of inspiration for young politicians like him and she had not done anything wrong in her long political career.
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Shri Rahul Gandhi (INC) said several people do humanitarian works but Smt. Sushma Swaraj, the Minister of External Affairs was the first individual in the world who did her humanitarian works in secrecy. He wanted to know as to why Lalit Modi and the black money network were being protected. The Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Arun Jaitley, replying to the debate said after the 2009 IPL cricket tournament held in South Africa, the Enforcement Directorate issued notice on the basis of the assumption that money had been transferred for the tournament without taking permission from the Reserve Bank of India. In spite of the notices, that person did not appear for the investigation and ran away to London. The then UPA Government issued a light blue corner alert to arrest that person. The case against that person was under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) under which the maximum punishment
was fine and penalty. Under FEMA, there was no provision for any red corner alert or for any bailable or non-bailable warrant. Under FEMA, no one could be declared an absconder or a fugitive because one could not be arrested. Later, when the then Finance Minister wrote letters to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in England saying why Lalit Modi was being allowed to stay in England when the Indian government had cancelled Lalit Modi’s passport, the Chancellor had replied that the person could not be deported under the British law because there had to be some criminal case for deportation. The Chancellor suggested applying for his extradition under the British Extradition Law. Meanwhile the Delhi High Court
delivered a judgement saying that his passport has been wrongly cancelled. Thus, every step taken by the UPA government was taken in the wrong direction. Sri Jaitley said the
government would take all appropriate steps as per law against Lalit Modi. He said the opposition was
responsible for washing out of the entire Session of the House on a non issue. The UPA when in power ran a failed government and when things began to look good in India and there was a new confidence, the opposition wanted to sabotage the Indian growth story. Smt. Sushma Swaraj was only a pretext. The real reason was that the Congress party wanted to prevent important legislations, particularly the constitution amendment on the Goods and Services Tax. Intervening in the debate, the Minister of Urban Development, Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu said the people of the country had given a mandate to Shri Narendra Modi and to the BJP government. He requested the members to argue, discuss, debate and decide and allow the Parliament to function.
At the end of the debate, the Adjournment Motion was negatived.
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