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Gujarat debate should be an exception: Subhash Kashyap

The former secretary general of the Lok Sabha, Subhash Kashyap, said on Thursday that the discussion on the law and order situation in Gujarat should be an exception, and not a rule.

The Bharatiya Janata Party had said on Wednesday that it would support a censure motion in the Lok Sabha on Bihar and West Bengal.

"Sure, it is our way of getting even with the opposition parties, who have brought about a situation where the censure motion pertaining to Gujarat has been admitted in the Lok Sabha," BJP parliamentary party spokesperson Vijay Kumar Malhotra's said.

"I would say that the ruling of deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha [P M Sayeed] should be treated as one time aberration and not made a rule," Kashyap told rediff.com

On Rule 184, Kashyap said that it only allowed a discussion on the subject. It meant nothing unless Rule 191, which allowed voting, was also applied.

Under Rule 193, a subject could be discussed without voting, he added.

Rule 184 also said that a motion should be passed for discussion on any subject, he said.

Article 186 laid down the conditions of the admissibility of the motion, and one of the conditions was that if a particular subject had been discussed in the House it could not be brought up again, he added.

In his ruling, Sayeed had said that though the Gujarat situation had been discussed in the first phase of the budget session, "there have been serious incidents of violence after the discussion".

"The gravity of the ground situation is also self evident from the fact that the army has been called out to aid civil authority. The army deployment continues. In the circumstances, the Gujarat situation cannot be construed as an ordinary law and order matter, which is the concern only of the state government," he said.

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