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Shri Narendra Modi had been sitting in the Parliament for several hours. However, the opposition parties did not allow him to speak. It was reported on NDTV
Today, PM Modi entered the Rajya Sabha shortly before the Question Hour at noon; questions relating to the Prime Minister's Office were listed for today.
The house was adjourned within moments, however, over the Trinamool's raucous protests over allegations that a flight with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on board was forced to circle over the Kolkata airport while it was low on fuel.[1]
Another day, when Mr Modi was sitting in Parliament, the opposition did not allow him to speak as they first wanted his apology for making a statement allegedly against the opposition parties.
The fact is that the opposition parties are simply not allowing the Parliament to function. They are not interested in any discussion on the issue of black money or demonetization. They are only interested in politicization of the issue in the hope that the people who have to stand on the queue in banks or for ATM would vote for them. This has angered Hon’ble President Shri Pranab Mukharjee, who said recently, “..House is not a place for dharna and disruption which amounts to "gagging of majority" by the minority. He also added, "Disruption is totally unacceptable in Parliamentary system. People send representatives to speak and not to sit on dharna and not to create any trouble on the floor".[2]
Mr Modi was left with no alternative but to speak outside the Parliament. However, this is also hurting the opposition parties since people are willing to believe Mr Modi’s words than trust their drama.
The opposition parties are now totally clueless what to do?
Many of them have lost thousands of crores of black money and they can’t even cry in public for their loss.
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Modiji , alone , although is a defacto head of the Government of India , and being blamed , is alone fighting the war against the black money , that he promised when majority Indians , throwing off Party allegiance, elected him to head the Government and render succor to starving and dying souls of majority of the population. His life is that of a sage , a hermit , a wanderer, and an angle, that Indians believe would transform their life. He is trying his best to deliver what he promised. First time he is the one who is executing what he promised in election manifesto. Otherwise what election manifesto meant earlier was that it was a tool to come on power and after capturing the power , it was to be forgotten.
India is country of 1300 millions. Most of the population is indisiplined and law breakers. But while responding to Mr Modi's resolve to hit the black money, all of them, except few, supported him overwhelmingly. Those didn't, are the opposition parties and bank officials.
Modiji was silent in Parliament. He was expected to reply to charges of opposition. He choose silence . That's best thing a wise man can do .
Modiji shouldn't be discouraged by the sudden nose diving of the Demonetisation process. The members of the public are still with you. You began with effort to start trail of money from the public but actually the trail of money should have been started with RBI to Banking network. How 1000 crores new currencies , are found in raids when the whole country is dying to possess a single new currency.
Sir . Please believe people are with you but don't trust the political colleagues and the bureaucracy specially those involved in implementing the demonetisation. There are good and bad apples everywhere. Identify good and honest bureaucrats and hammer dishonest including banks officials. Charity first starts at home.
When going gets tough, the tough gets going. You are same. I would like to share story of Phoenix bird , whom you resemble.
There is a bird that lays no eggs and has no young. It was here when the world began and is still living today, in a hidden, faraway desert spot. It is the phoenix, the bird of fire.
One day in the beginning times, the sun looked down and saw a large bird with shimmering feathers. They were red and gold--bright and dazzling like the sun itself. The sun called out, "Glorious Phoenix, you shall be my bird and live forever!" Live forever!
The Phoenix was overjoyed to hear these words. It lifted its head and sang, "Sun glorious sun, I shall sing my songs for you alone!"
But the Phoenix was not happy for long. Poor bird. Its feathers were far too beautiful. Men, women, and children were always chasing it and trying to trap it. They wanted to have some of those beautiful, shiny feathers for themselves.
"I cannot live here," thought the phoenix. and it flew off toward the east, where the sun rises in the morning.
The Phoenix flew for a long time, and then came to a far away, hidden desert where no humans lived. And there the phoenix remained in peace, flying freely and singing its songs of praise to the sun above.
Almost five hundred years passed. The Phoenix was still alive, but it had grown old. It was often tired, and it had lost much of its strength. It couldn't soar so high in the sky, nor fly as fast or as far as it was young.
"I don't want to live like this," thought the Phoenix. "I want to be young and strong."
So the Phoenix lifted it's head and sang, "Sun, glorious sun, make me young and strong again!" but the sun didn't answer. Day after day the Phoenix sang. When the sun still didn't answer, the Phoenix decided to return to the place where it had lived in the beginning and ask the sun one more time.
It flew across the desert, over hills, green valleys, and high mountains. The journey was long, and because the Phoenix was old and weak, it had to rest along the way. Now, the Phoenix has a keen sense of smell and is particularly fond of herbs and spices. So each time it landed, it collected pieces of cinnamon bark and all kinds of fragrant leaves. It tucked some in among its feathers and carried the rest in its claws.
When at last the bird came to the place that had once been its home, it landed on a tall palm tree growing high on a mountainside. Right at the top of the tree, the Phoenix built a nest with the cinnamon bark and lined it with the fragrant leaves. Then the Phoenix flew off and collected some sharp-scented gum called myrrh, which it had seen oozing out of a nearby tree. The Phoenix made an egg from the myrrh and carried the egg back to the nest.
Now everything was ready. The Phoenix sat down in its nest, lifted its head, and sang, "Sun, glorious sun, make me young and strong again!"
This time the sun heard the song. Swiftly it chased the clouds from the sky and stilled the winds and shone down on the mountainside with all its power.
The animals, the snakes, the lizards, and every other bird hid from the sun's fierce rays -- in caves and holes, under shady rocks and trees. Only the Phoenix sat upon its nest and let the suns rays beat down upon it beautiful, shiny feathers.
Suddenly there was a flash of light, flames leaped out of the nest, and the Phoenix became a big round blaze of fire.
After a while the flames died down. The tree was not burnt, nor was the nest. But the Phoenix was gone. In the nest was a heap of silvery-gray ash.
The ash began to tremble and slowly heave itself upward. From under the ash there rose up a young Phoenix. It was small and looked sort of crumpled, but it stretched its neck and lifted its wings and flapped them. Moment by moment it grew, until it was the same size as the old Phoenix. It looked around, found the egg made of myrrh, and hollowed it out. Then it placed the ashes inside and finally closed up the egg. The young Phoenix lifted its head and sang, "Sun, glorious sun, I shall sing my songs for you alone! Forever and ever!"
When the song ended, the wind began to blow, the clouds came scudding across the sky, and the other living creatures crept out of their hiding places.
Then the Phoenix, with the egg in its claws, flew up and away. At the same time, a cloud of birds of all shapes and sizes rose up from the earth and flew behind the Phoenix, singing together, "You are the greatest of birds! You are our king!"
The birds flew with the Phoenix to the temple of the sun that the Egyptians had built at Heliopolis, city of the sun. Then the Phoenix placed the egg with the ashes inside on the sun's altar.
"Now," said the Phoenix, "I must fly on alone." And while the other birds watched, it flew off toward the faraway desert.
The Phoenix lives there still. But every five hundred years, when it begins to feel weak and old, it flies west to the same mountain. There it builds a fragrant nest on top of a palm tree, and there the sun once again burns it to ashes. But each time, the Phoenix rises up from those ashes, fresh and new and young again
Modi has always been a clever politician who knows how to handle criticism and also how to respond properly to the Opposition.
- It is hard to understand how one can stop PM Modi from speaking in the Parliament, when his party BJP has 282 MPs, his government has more than 300 MPs, and even the Speaker is from his own party. Congress has just 44 members.
source - 16th Lok Sabha - Wikipedia
As Rama Lakshmi points out in the Washington Post PM Modi built a different image of himself.
He gave stump speeches, blogged, tweeted, Facebooked. India's youths had finally found in the 63-year old Modi a leader fit for a generation of over-sharers and hyper-communicators.
Despite the Opposition leaders shouting 'Pradhan mantri jawab do!' slogans in both Houses of Parliament and leaving the Speakers in both the Houses no option but to adjourn the proceedings over their demand for a statement from the prime minister in the Parliament over demonetization, Modi has not made a single statement in either of the Houses of Parliament on this issue so far. It is partly because of a lack of response from the prime minister that Manmohan Singh's speech had a huge impact on many people in the country.
If one briefly summaries the most prominent speeches or statements made by the prime minister since he announced demonetization on 8 November, one concludes that Modi has addressed the people on the issue of demonetisation —sometimes emotionally — at rallies and through his radio address Mann Ki Baat.
He has also spoken many times against the Opposition on the issue of demonetisation, whether it is asking people to choose between those trying to call for a 'Bharat Bandh' and those trying to fight against black money or whether it is alleging at a rally that the politicians behind chit fund scams are now attacking him.
The prime minister has also addressed BJP MPs at parliamentary party meetings, sometimes emotionally appealing to them to endorse his "crusade" and sometimes asking them to submit bank account details.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present in the Rajya Sabha, the House witnessed protests over his prolonged absence from the debate over demonetization.
Modi the prime minister however has gone silent. Sure, he gives long vision speeches while launching a space rocket. He still tweets regularly about what he told the World Bank president about cleaning the Ganga, releasing a biography of Sardar Patel in Braille and his best wishes to India’s Commonwealth Games team.
But about the issues roiling the nation, the Parliament and his own party lately – Shiv Sena hooliganism and Sania Mirza for example – the prime minister has gone into radio silence. He could say these are non-issues, he could say these are trivial misunderstandings being communalized by a hyperactive media. But he chooses to say absolutely nothing.
CONCLUSION
PM Modi is his own master.
This makes his silence a far more strategic silence, a silence of choice and convenience. It also sends out confusing signal at times when the need of the hour is firm clarity.
As mentioned by others PM Modi was available in Parliment at different stages but rather the opposition’s intent was not discussion it was disruption. At the start of the Winter session the demand was a Discussion on Demonitization which was accepted immediately by the Government and was initiated as well during which various memebers of the Opposition in RS notably Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mayawati, Sharad Yadav, Ramgopal Yadav etc. Spoke with full flair and where given relevant & pertinent replies by Leader of the the house & Finance Minister Arun Jaitely but then came a new demand of discussion under a rule which has a voting clause. When it is an Executive Order not a Bill or Ordinance why should it be put to a vote. Then came the demand of PM’s reply in Parliment, when the PM attended the parliment and was ready to reply, the opposition again renigged on their demand now asking for an apology from the PM before his reply. To what level should the Government & PM succumb to an Opposition whose only intent is disruption, had the opposition not disrupted the proceedings and remained foccused on having a helathy parlimentary debate and the PM would not have participated in it it would have been all blame to Modi but when the opposition itself is ill intended and wants only disruption,how can only the PM deal with them.
It is amazing that he is abstaining from Parliament after this major exercise. Perhaps he realizes what a colossal failure it is becoming, and knows he will be ripped apart with questions he does not have any answers to.
His team is changing the entire objectives of de-mon every day. The goalpost is being moved to where the ball is headed, but the ball is changing directions. So far, we have heard of a dozen objectives, and each of these seems to become a failure. Modi seems to be running away from facing the Parliament, and is instead lecturing people in deep rural Gujarat about this act.
The demonetization decision announced is purely and solely of Modi. And Modi has been talking about it, even making emotional speeches, from every available public platform, but avoiding to make a statement in the Parliament Houses inspite there is a clear demand from the elected representatives.
Parliament Houses are decision and policy making bodies and not public platforms. Three full weeks over and the winter session of parliament is a complete wash out. Yet Modi does not feel it incumbent on his part to address the Parliament Houses and convince the law makers.
It is now over one full month and still people are suffering every where. From farmers to artisans, from employees to pensioners, from daily wage earners to vendors, from retail traders to industry, from hospitals to hospitality industry, etc. the loss is felt by everyone and is visible. Common people did not expect it, do not want it and cannot afford it. And neither any progressive nation can be allowed to derail the process of growth by one decision.
We have just 3 more days of winter session left. Modi should not avoid the parliament but should make a statement and share his line of thinking and planning and the reveal the contingency plans in place to face the eventualities that would crop up and throw challenges.
Just observe the difference in the facial expressions in the two photos reproduced below. One in the Parliament House (Rajya Sabha) on day 8 of winter session on the day MMS spoke and the other on the day of announcement of demonetization on 08th November 2016. Modi was expected to speak in RS during post lunch session, but left the house during lunch recess. Read the news article by clicking on the link provided.
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