FDI in retail sector issue in Parliament
The Congress led UPA government for its decision to allow 50% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail sector, the Centre on Monday arranged an all-party meeting tomorrow to discuss the FDI issue further.The all-party meeting would be headed either by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee or Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Sing. Here you will get the FDI in retail sector issue in Parliament.
According to reports, DMK Chief M Karunanidhi said the Centre’s insistence that states should go by the decision cannot be justified. DMK had opposed FDI in retail trade even when the idea was originally mooted. In both Houses of Parliament were disrupted by the opposition members demanding an immediate roll back on the government’s decision to open up the retail sector for foreign players.
The Opposition MPs demanded a full-fledged debate and slammed it for not discussing the issue with major political parties before taking such a drastic decision. The Houses were first postponed till noon. The opposition rejected to give up when the Houses rearranged leading to adjournemnt for the day.
TRS members raised their demand for a separate state of Telangana. Congress members from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh also walked up to make the same demand.
In the Rajya Sabha, BSP, JD-U, AIADMK and SP members raised slogans against the government’s FDI policy soon after Chairman Hamid Ansari took his seat.
BJP member Murli Manohar Joshi, who had given an adjournment notice to discuss government’s policy on FDI, foced that the issue will be taken up immediately. Joshi was supported by Sharad Yadav and other NDA members. BJP members also demanding cancellation of the government decision on FDI.
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