Even as the Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the government is ready to discuss all issues in Parliament, including students' protests, and asked the opposition to let the House function, LoP Rahul Gandhi responded with the remark that opposition is not interested to listen to his 'lecture'.
Speaking to reporters in the Parliament House complex, Amit Shah also asserted that he will give a reply to the debate and urged the opposition to give a notice to Lok Sabha speaker for a discussion on the topic by 2 pm on Wednesday."We are ready to discuss all the issues in Parliament, including students' protests; let the House function," the home minister said.
"If the opposition gives it in writing to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla by 2 pm today, we can start a discussion at 3 pm today until 3 pm tomorrow," Shah said."If the discussion starts at 3 pm today, I will give a reply tomorrow at 3 pm," the home minister said, adding: "Now, the opposition has to decide whether they want to do a discussion or uproar in Parliament."
Shah took exception to the opposition members using terms like "missing and fugitive " for him, saying that he has been regularly coming to Parliament, but there is "no point" in entering the House when the opposition is not allowing it function.
"Words like 'missing' and 'fugitives' are terms that have only recently begun to be heard in India's public and parliamentary discourse. Ever since the Parliament session began, I have been coming regularly and sitting in my chamber. Since the opposition is not allowing either of the two Houses of Parliament to function, what is the point of going there?" the home minister asked.Shah said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has already made it clear that the government is ready to discuss all issues, including students' protests on NEET paper leak.
On the other hand, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the Opposition is not interested in listening to Home Minister Amit Shah's "lecture" in Parliament, and asserted that the younger generation of the country wants to know who ordered that protesting students be shot at with pellet guns.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said if Shah ordered that students be shot at, he is culpable, and if he did not, then he is incompetent, and in both the cases he should resign.Gandhi said Shah's image "balloon" had been deflated and there was a last-ditch attempt to fill gas in it but "the balloon has burst"."Amit Shah has no courage, he cannot come to the House," he said.
Gandhi's remarks came after Shah said the government is ready to discuss all issues in Parliament, including students' protests.
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