Rahul Gandhi to speak in Lok Sabha on land Bill

NEW DELHi Apr 20, 2015I(Agencies): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is likely to speak in the Lok Sabha on Monday evening on the issue of the land bill.Rahul Gandhi speaking in Parliament is something like a solar eclipse which happens once in a blue moon," BJP spokesman GVL Narsimha Rao said on Monday.Earlier in the day, amid uproar by the opposition MP, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy laid a copy of the land ordinance, promulgated by the President on April 3.Opposition members raised slogans like "withdraw the bill" and "down with the anti-farmer government", terming the re-promulgation of the ordinance as "murder of democracy".Top opposition leaders, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of Congress and



Mulayam Singh Yadav of SP, were present in the House.yotiraditya Scindia, K C Venugopal and Gaurav Gogoi (all Cong), Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav (RJD) and Dharmendra Yadav (JD-U) were among several opposition members protesting in the well.Speaker Sumitra Mahajan sought to pacify the members, saying the bill was yet to be introduced and they could protest when that happens.The fresh ordinance, which is the 11th by the Narendra Modi government, incorporates nine amendments that were part of the bill passed in Lok Sabha last month.The ordinance, which the government could not get converted into a legislation in the first half of the Budget Session due to stiff opposition in Rajya Sabha, was re-promulgated on April 3, a day before it was to lapse.