New Delhi, April 27 (Inditop.com) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday gave a breach of privilege notice in the Lok Sabha against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his remarks outside the house rejecting the need for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to probe the phone-tapping and IPL controversy.
“The opposition has been demanding there should be a JPC. The parliamentary tradition demands that the prime minister should make his statement in the house. This is a serious breach of privilege,” senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar told reporters here.
He said the two houses had seen adjournments on the issue for the past three days. The prime minister should have commented on the issue inside parliament.
Kumar said he had signed the notice for breach of privilege along with the party’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, Gopinath Munde, and party leader Yashwant Sinha.
Earlier, speaking in the Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj lashed out at the prime minister for stating outside the house late Monday that there was no need for a JPC probe on the phone tapping charges and the raging Indian Premier League (IPL) row.
Sushma Swaraj said she was “shocked to see in the newspaper” the prime minister’s statement.
“This is not an ordinary thing. This is an insult to the august house,” she said.
