Speaker has been trying to end deadlock, says LS Sectt

After rare outburst by BJP veteran L K Advani over non-functioning of the House, the Lok Sabha Secretariat today said Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has been making efforts to see that there is a discussion on demonetisation and the deadlock ends.
"The Speaker has always tried to have discussion in the House. Last week she continuously held meetings with leaders of prominent parties to end the deadlock," an official of the Lok Sabha Secretariat said.
"Her (Mahajan's) effort has always been to see that the House functions during Question Hour and members are able to raise their issues during the Zero Hour," the official added.

Referring to the ongoing stand-off, the official said the Speaker, from day one of the Winter session, has tried to see that the government and the Opposition agree on a discussion.
Earlier in the day, an exasperated Advani blamed both the ruling and Opposition benches for the deadlock in the Lok Sabha of which he is a member and even pulled up the Speaker and Parliamentary Affairs Minister for "not running the House".
"Neither the Speaker nor the Parliamentary Affairs Minister is running the House," he was heard remarking just before Lok Sabha was adjourned 15 minutes ahead of the lunch recess amid slogan-shouting by Congress and TMC members.

"I am going to tell the Speaker that she is not running the House ... I am going to say it publicly. Both sides are a party to this," he said as Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar Kumar was seen pacifying the BJP stalwart.
Congress was quick to latch on to Advani's angry remarks, telling the government to pay heed to the "good advice" of the BJP veteran and get the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha going.