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03.08.2010
SHRI P.C. CHACKO (THRISSUR): Mr. Chairman, Sir, I thank you very much
for the opportunity given to me.
From 12 o’clock, for the last more than six hours, this House is waiting to
listen from the hon. Members, especially from the Members of the Opposition,
some valuable suggestions to tackle the situation this country is facing today.
But I must tell that right from Shrimati Sushma Swaraj to Shri Basu Deb
Acharia to the hon. Member from U.P., all of them have disappointed this House
and disappointed the people of this country.
For the last six days, this House was taken to ransom. No business could be
transacted; it is all for the sake of a discussion on price rise and inflation. The
simple formula was that they wanted to discuss this issue with voting. Today,
when Shrimati Sushma Swaraj started speaking, her disappointment was so
obvious – that they could not pull down the Government. She said that but for Shri
Lalu Prasad’s Party and the BSP’s support, this Government would have been
downed. That was her speech.
Probably, the issues like price rise and inflation, we cannot go above the
political or partisan lines and we cannot discuss this issue in all its seriousness.
Probably today, after a week’s pandemonium, when this House started discussing
this issue, people expected that valuable suggestions would come from the
Opposition. I am not blaming them for not doing so. They cannot. What are the
reasons for this situation? If it is a crisis, what is the reason for this crisis? Who
contributed to this? What are the steps taken by the Government? What are the
lapses on the part of the Government?
They spoke about Commonwealth games; they spoke about food grains
getting rot in Punjab; they spoke about CBI and about other things. At the same
time, we have been discussing this issue during the last many sessions of
Parliament. I expected that at least the Leader of the Opposition will speak about
the rate of inflation. The resolution talks about the inflationary pressure on the
Indian economy and the consequent problem faced by the common man. What is
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