A tumultuous 2010 for Parliament

Wednesday, 29 December 2010, 17:20 IST
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A tumultuous 2010 for Parliament
New Delhi: It was a tumultuous year for Parliament rocked as it was by disruptions on scams that led to the longest shutdown of an entire session for the first time in independent India. Though disruptions of Parliament had become a routine affair in the last two decades, the just-concluded Winter Session of the House took the cake for its complete washout following opposition-government standoff over the demand for the appointment of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to go into the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The standoff showed no signs of resolution as the year draws to a close with the government not resiling from its position that the Public Accounts Committee was enough to do the job. There were full or partial shutdown of Parliament for as many as 38 of the total 83 days, costing the exchequer around 240 crore.
Source: PTI