New Delhi: As the winter session of Parliament is set to begin on Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the government will make an effort to evolve consensus on all Bill. He said there will be an effort to do maximum pending work as the session is a short one.
"The session is a short one and the obligation is on all parties to get all possible legislation and pending business done," Manmohan Singh said.
When asked about BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi's letter on Communal Violence Bill, Singh said, "There will be an effort to evolve consensus on all matters of legislative importance." This as Modi wrote to Dr Singh against bringing the Communal Violence Bill in the winter session of Parliament.
Terming the timing of the move by the government suspicious, Modi on Thursday tweeted "Political considerations and vote bank politics rather than genuine concerns are guiding it."
Modi urged the PM "to seek wider consultation with the states and various stakeholders of the Bill before proceeding any further on a Bill like this." He said that the Bill if implemented would fragment the society and increase violence. He also added that the Bill will have results opposite to the stated objectives. "Communal Violence Bill is in clear violation of India's federal structure. Centre is busy forming laws on matters that are in the State List," Modi tweeted.
The BJP is opposed to any move to the bring the Communal Violence Bill. However, this Bill is something that the ruling coalition wants to bring especially after the Muzaffarnagar violence.
"We will bring the Communal Violence Bill this session, Modi can keep doing his work," said Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.
The Left has also expressed reservations over the Bill. "This Bill has some issues, it is said that this bill overrules the state powers. Then in case of victims also, there is some issue. I do not think this Bill can be brought in the House," said CPI leader D Raja.
The Congress will be hoping to push through some of the pending bills which could be the political game-changers ahead of polls. The Congress wants to push the Lokpal and the Women's Reservation Bills to garner maximum brownie points before the Lok Sabha elections. But Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has reiterated his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill.
"If controversial bills such as Women's Bill and SC/ST Promotion Quota Bill are taken up then the House won't function," SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav threatened.
Other important bills like the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2012, the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, the Indo-Bangla land boundary agreement discussion and voting on supplementary grants for both railways and general are all pending. The challenge before the UPA is to pack all of these in 12 working days.
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