‘Always played the role of responsible Opposition’

In the first week of Winter session of Parliament, Trinamool made meaningful interventions in both the Houses of Parliament, highlighting issues of public importance.

In the Lok Sabha, leader of the party Sudip Bandyopadhyay spoke on Constitution Day mentioning Babashaheb Ambedkar as an Indian nationalist, jurist, Dalit political leader, activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and the revivalist of Buddhism in India. In the Rajya Sabha, the Leader of the party in the Upper House, Derek O’ Brien recalled on the behalf of the Trinamool Congress, the tremendous contribution Dr Ambedkar has had beyond the Constitution. He also slammed the BJP for indulging in ‘cowboy constitutionalism’.

Also in the Rajya Sabha, AITC MP Sukhenda Sekhar Roy, while speaking on the occasion of the celebration of the Constitution Day asked: “Are we serving the country in the constitutional way that Baba Saheb desired? Whenever I put this question to myself the answer is always no. That is because we are still pursuing a cause to divide. We are encouraging the divisive forces in one form or the other, knowing fully well that forces of destabilisation can never contribute in any manner to the task of nation building.”

In the Lok Sabha, the chief whip of AITC, Kalyan Banerjee, in his speech on the occasion of the Constitution Day said that Dr Ambedkar fought for the protection and the reservation of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and now the attempt is being made to take away such protection and reservation. In the Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay slammed the Centre over funds for flood/drought relief in Bengal. He also wanted to know about the system of allotment of money in these cases.

In the Rajya Sabha, the leader of the party in the Upper House, Derek O’Brien also slammed the Centre over flood/drought relief for Bengal.

In the Lok Sabha, on the debate on intolerance, Dr Sugata Bose said: “We are not saying that India is intolerant. We are saying, followers, supporters and even some members of this Government are spreading a virulent form of prejudice and bigotry.” In the Lok Sabha, AITC MP Aparupa Poddar raised the issue of malnourishment in the country during the Zero Hour. Children from Muslim households, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes face higher rates of malnourishment, 

she said.