Price rise: BJP demands adjournment motion

Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday insisted on bringing an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha to discuss the issue of price rise as previous debates have yielded no results.

"We want to bring an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha on the burning issue of price rise.

"Previous debates under Rule 193 (short duration discussion) have yielded no results," party's deputy leader in the Lower House Gopinath Munde told reporters in New Delhi after the Parliamentary Party's meeting on Tuesday morning.

The BJP has already given a notice for adjournment motion and said the government should not make it an ego issue.

With Opposition sticking to its demand, an uproar is expected in the House with government insisting that the problem of price rise was 'more a failure' of the state governments than the Centre.

A discussion under an adjournment motion would entail voting and the government wants it to be taken up only as a short duration-discussion which does not have voting. Similarly in Rajya Sabha, BJP said it wants a debate on price rise under Rule 167 which allows voting.