2/3/2024 0 Comments Struggle session episode 100Sharad Pawar: The issues got personalised too and some worthy issues got ignored too. When a non-issue was personalised and politicised, then it is advantage PM Modi. The ruling party said you are raising a non-issue, what should we respond, what should the dialogue be. NDTV: I want to understand from you, that every person wants to understand politics by decoding it, but to go to an extreme, to carry out the individualisation of politics that we will carry out personal attacks, and the issue disappears. Both these things coincided and the whole session got washed out. These days, like carrying out an extreme struggle is not right, likewise cancelling the dialogue process is not right too. But Ghulam Nabi would sit with the leader of opposition and try and find a way and the house would function. On many issues the opposition would not let the parliament run. I remember, Ghulam Nabi Azad used to be the Parliamentary Affairs Minister and the opposition was very strong. This process of dialogue is absent these days. It is everyone's responsibility that if there is conflict in parliament and ok the session will not run that day but to get the house to run the next day, whether you sit in the evening or the next day, there must be an effort to find a solution. I have spent 56 years in Vidhan Sabha and parliament continuously and I have seen such problems, ruckus at many times, but after this happened, in the evening, the next morning was a normal morning. The shortcoming I see here is this, when there is a struggle in parliament over any issue, like I said earlier, there should be a dialogue. The Samajwadi Party came later, the Telugu Desam was there, they came later, a Tamil Nadu party was there, many parties were there. Sharad Pawar: I will have to accept that it was not only the Congress that was involved. Ultimately you went along with it, you did not say such disruptions are not on, it is lazy politics. NDTV: The issue that was raised and led to such a conflict, how do you see it because different parties have had different views, but the focus went on the Congress party's extreme stand. A discussion and dialogue is very important in any democracy, if you ignore discussion and dialogue the system will fall into danger, it will just perish. There can be different viewpoints, criticism, one has the right to speak strongly about the policies of the government, but a discussion should take place. Unfortunately, in the last month, we have seen that both houses of parliament were not allowed to function and there was ruckus. When it reconvened, we sat together later and we discussed that there can be differences, allegations but this forum is an important forum to put forward the problems of the people, if this forum does not work, and if we the representatives of the people cannot do anything about it, it is not right. When Dr Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister of the country, I was part of his government, and then on the 2G issue the session was washed out for many days. The question of the parliament impasse, I feel whatever is happening is not right but we also cannot disregard that it has happened earlier too. Sharad Pawar: The questions you asked, I will answer them, but you started by talking about two SPs and I wanted to say the two SPs had never met, and it is unprecedented. Such a parliamentary impasse, how do you see it after a 56-year-career in parliament, and what is the condition of opposition unity, and if the Congress is the axis, then the single-point agenda they are about to propagate, what is the assessment of the other opposition parties about it? Disrupting parliament like this and thinking that a point has been scored is unfortunate. After the incidents of the last few days, few big questions have been raised. I thank you for taking the time out for this interview. One a very big Sharad Pawar, the Ajatshatru of politics and the other a small journalist, Sanjay Pugalia. This is a very special meeting because it is between two SPs. Here is the full transcript of the interview: Sharad Pawar, the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and one of the country's tallest politicians speaks exclusively to NDTV 24x7's Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia on the Adani-Hindenburg row, Karnataka elections and more.
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