New Delhi , Aug.8 (ANI): Chaos reined on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament on Wednesday, with the opposition and the treasury benches trading verbal volleys and charges over the ethnic violence in Assam .
\nDescribing the riots in and around Kokrajhar as the biggest failure of the Central Government, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said: \u201cOf the state\u2019s three-crore population, up to 400,000 are homeless… this is an unprecedented crisis.\u201d
\nBut Advani\u2019s remark of describing the ruling UPA as \u201cillegitimate\u201d created chaos, leading Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to say that it was \u201can insult to Parliament.\u201d
\nThe debate on Assam – which has seen its worst violence in more than a decade with 70 people killed – began after Advani moved an adjournment motion on Assam .
\nAn adjournment motion asks for the usual business of the House to be set aside for an urgent discussion on a matter of national interest.
\nAdvani said he was pleased to note that the Prime Minister, who represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha, was present for the debate.
\nThe Prime Minister is likely to deliver a statement on behalf of the government. He is likely to appeal that no statement be made to communalise the situation.
\nHe will also stress that it\u2019s important for parties to focus on relief efforts and on restoring normalcy to the state.
\nAdvani said: \u201cLet not anyone regard it as a Hindu vrsus Muslim issue, or a tribal versus non-tribal issue. It is a matter of who is India and who are foreigner.\u201d
\nThe BJP holds the government responsible for allowing illegal immigrants from Bangladesh to move freely into lower Assam .
\n\u201cThe Assamese people are now refugees in their own state. Infiltration from Bangladesh is affecting the security of the whole country,\u201d Advani said.
\nChief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who heads the Congress government in Assam , said yesterday that the state is \u201csitting on a volcano.\u201d
\nHe has been criticised for ignoring early warning signs of tension between the Bodo tribals and Bengali-speaking Muslims. More than 70 people have died in the last month. 400,000 people are displaced and living in 200 relief camps in lower Assam .
\nMedicines and other supplies are running short. There are just 117 doctors moving from one camp to another as diseases like malaria spread.
\nThe BJP has also promised to attack Finance Minister P Chidambaram for his alleged role in the telecom scam.
\nThe party has accused Chidambaram of dereliction of duty because the 2G scam, named for the type of airwaves involved and estimated to be India\u2019s largest swindle – unfolded on his watch in 2008.
\nThen Telecom Minister A Raja allegedly accepted huge kickbacks from companies who jumped to the head of a long queue for licenses for mobile networks.
\nChidambaram did not intervene, says the BJP.
\nThe minister has also been accused by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy of misusing his office to delay the sale of telecom Aircel to a company from Malaysia named Maxis.
\nSwamy alleges that the delay helped Mr Chidambaram\u2019s son to invest in Aircel and benefit financially from its eventual purchase by Maxis.
\nEarlier this year, the Supreme Court cancelled 122 2G licenses issued by Raja, and asked that they be reallocated via an auction to be completed by the end of August.<\/p>\n\n