Rajya Sabha Secretariat did not approve my question about Chinese soldiers: Subramanian Swamy

Rajya Sabha member and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday claimed that the Rajya Sabha Secretariat did not allow one of his questions citing national security. According to him, in this question it was asked whether Chinese soldiers had crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh?

The Rajya Sabha Secretariat said that when a sensitive matter is involved, it takes steps as per the recommendation of the Ministry concerned.

The opposition has also been raising this issue since the clash between the armies of the two countries in June last year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in the all-party meeting last year that no one has entered India or occupied its border.

Swamy in a tweet said, ‘It is not tragic but ridiculous that Rajya Sabha informed me today on my question that this question cannot be allowed in the national interest whether China crossed the LAC?’

It is hilarious if not tragic for Rajya Sabha Secretariat to inform me today that my Question whether the Chinese have crossed the LAC in Ladakh, cannot be allowed “ because of national interest”!!!

— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) December 1, 2021

A senior official of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said in this regard, “If a sensitive matter is involved, the Secretariat runs according to the recommendations of the Ministry concerned.” He said that this has been a tradition for a long time.

This is not the first time that the Rajya Sabha Secretariat or the government has refused to accept questions in Parliament.

Earlier in the month of August during the monsoon session, the central government had written to the Rajya Sabha secretariat saying that the question asked by CPI MP Binoy Viswam on the Pegasus issue should not be answered. The Modi government had argued that since these matters are still sub-judice in the Supreme Court, it cannot be answered.

Apart from this, the Union Law Ministry had written a letter to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat on 15 July this year asking that a question asked by Trinamool Congress MP Shanta Chhetri on ‘India’s position in the Democracy Index’ should be rejected, which was answered on 22 July. was to be given.

Chhetri had questioned India’s position in the Democracy Index of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU-(Department of Research and Analysis of the Economist Group)). The report said that India was placed in the category of ‘flawed democracy’ in this index.

The Law Ministry had argued that it was of ‘extremely sensitive nature’, so it should be rejected.

Recently, Congress MP KC Venugopal’s question was removed from the list of questions to be asked in Parliament, in which he asked whether the non-resident Indians (NRIs) who supported the farmers’ movement were asked to stop financial assistance. Was.