Upper House on Monday witnessed repeated disruptions on the Lobbying by Walmart issue. Quoting a Newspaper report Opposition members sought an immediate discussion. The presiding officer quoted rules. Amid the din, the house had to be adjourned till 12:30 pm and then till 2 pm. The media report had claimed that Walmart had lobbied with US lawmakers for the last four years to facilitate their entry into the Indian retail market. It claimed that the company had spent 25 million dollars as per a report submitted in US senate. The amount is equivalent to 125 crore Rupees. BJP and SP demanded probe on the Walmart lobbying report while Congress claimed that It has nothing to do with India.
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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