JOIN USSenior BJP leader Jaswant Singh slammed the Congress for its ‘hurried’ introduction of the SC/ST quota Bill in the Parliament and said the Centre has violated the Constitutional norms.
“The Congress did not discuss the bill and introduced it overnight. According to the (norms), social engineering through politics is important and every person should be consulted before taking a decision. The Congress rushed a Bill of great magnitude,” he said. It may be recalled that the Bill had raised an ugly scene with MPs of the SP and the BSP coming to blows in the Parliament. Singh, who is also the former Defence and External Affairs Minister, was in the City to deliver the K Subrahmanyam memorial lecture at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. He spoke on the nation’s age-old border problem with Pakistan and China.
Positing that the hurried exit of the British in 1947 is the root cause of the border problems and major issues plaguing India, he argued: “Even after formation of the countries (India, Pakistan), the borders were not demarcated and the nations were not divided properly.”
Replying to the questions, Singh said though the process to resume relations between India and Pakistan was on, the neighbouring nation is yet to resolve its internal problems.