BJP boycotts Lok Sabha to join rally against price rise
April 21st, 2010 - 1:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday boycotted the Lok Sabha proceedings to join its mass rally here to protest against the spiralling prices of essential commodities.
BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told IANS that party MPs felt it was more important to be part of the rally.
BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj, who addressed the house before the start of question hour, slammed the government’s “wrong policies” for the price rise and said BJP MPs were joining the “lakhs and lakhs of people” who had come from all over the country for the protest.
“Price rise is not an outcome of any natural calamity, it is the outcome of the wrong policies of the government,” Swaraj said in her two-minute speech.
She said though the first day of the budget session began with a debate over price rise, there was no satisfactory reply by the government and no effort was made to curb the price rise.
Soon after her speech, the BJP MPs raised slogans against the government and trooped out of the house. They did not disrupt the question hour.
Thousands of BJP members have gathered here for a massive rally against rising prices, the first show of strength by newly-elected party president Nitin Gadkari.
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