BJP, Left, TDP blame Cong for Par chaos, calls it "drama"

The BJP and the Left today laid the blame squarely on Congress for the unprecedented chaos in the Lok Sabha over the Telangana issue, alleging it was a "drama" enacted by the ruling party as part of a "design" and rued that it has brought a "bad name" to Indian democracy.
The Opposition parties while claiming that the pepper spray incident involving expelled Congress MP L Rajagopal was deliberately done condemned it as "disgraceful", "shameful" and "sad" for Parliament. The incident has crossed all limits, they said.
The TDP, a regional party from Andhra Pradesh, also echoed the views of the BJP and Left and targeted the Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani led the Opposition charge, saying the Congress party is "solely responsible." I
"Whatever has happened in Parliament is not just unfortunate but also shameful...For this, the Congress party is solely responsible. It is a drama enacted by the Congress," he added.
Advani's party colleague Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, said the pandemonium during when Rajagopal used pepper spray was part of the Congress design.

"Whatever happened, it has crossed all limits...It now seems that all that has happened is part of the design because Congress wanted to create pandemonium and commotion so that all members leave the Lok Sabha and then they could do a make-believe introduction of the Telangana Bill," she said.

Another BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the events in Parliament has brought a bad name to Indian democracy.
"The Congress alone is responsibile for bringing a bad name to Indian democracy," he said.
Terming the events as a "theatre of the absurd", the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha said it could have been avoided had the Congress leadership done adequate home work and were able to control the members.
CPI-M said that while the pepper spray incident and breaking of mikes are condemnable, those who did it are not the only ones to be blamed.
"Congress and the government, which apprehended such incidents, did not take appropriate and timely action. This was deliberately done. It shows Congress does not want the House to function smoothly," CPI(M) Lok Sabha leader Basudeb Acharia told PTI.

TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu said he blamed Sonia Gandhi for the chaos. "For all these things, I am blaming Sonia Gandhi. She is the person responsible," he added.