Protest parade

With 10 days of the winter session gone and no business being transacted, both Houses of Parliament have witnessed disruptions over a range of issues. While Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members have been raising “Save Andhra Pradesh” slogans, the Bahujan Samaj Party has been holding the House ransom over infant deaths in the Muzaffarnagar relief camps, hoping to embarass the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh. Not willing to be outdone, the SP in turn raised the perennial issue of “price rise”. The Trinamool Congress raised placards demanding the Delhi Police book Justice A K Ganguly in a sexual harassment case. With practically every political party except for the Congress protesting, it was difficult to make sense of all the issues being raised. Most were left wondering what the CPI (M) was protesting about.