The opposition parties who succeeded in stalling Parliament proceedings this week over denomitization, are now seems to be suspicious towards the silence being maintained by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While they were insisting for the presence of the prime minister in Rajya Sabha to respond to the debate on this issue, they are suspecting that Narendra Modi is waiting for an appropriate time to hit back them with an emotional appeal to the people, once they settled with cash notes scarcity.
As already queues at banks started coming down, though they are turning to be much larger at ATMs, the government is expecting that the situation may be stabilised in a week time, as the general public started adjusting themselves to the changing environment. Moreover, various relaxations being announced by the government from time to time also giving some relief to them.
To make them relevance to the changing environment, the opposition is preparing to change their track in attacking the government during Parliament session. Now, the opposition is likely to focus on the pathetic scenario prevailed in rural areas, particularly miseries of farmers due to denomitizatiion, keeping queues at banks and ATMs away.
Meanwhile, they are worrying that the ruling party may try to take advantage from the division in their ranks. The opposition parties are particularly worry over `unilateral’ exercise of two chief ministers Mamata Benerjee and Aravind Kejriwal.
Mamata contacted leaders of almost all opposition parties, including her formidable adversary CPM with an intention to march towards Rashtrapati Bhavan. However, on the opening day of the Parliament session, without bothering about other parties, along with Kejriwal, she on her own went ahead of the programme.
Her comradeship with Shiva Sena created irksome positions to Congress and Left. Due to presence of BJP’s ally Shiva Sena’s representation in the march, except NCP, all other opposition parties have kept away to the march.
The opposition parties were also not expected that the government would agree for debate on this issue in Rajya Sabha on the very opening day of the Parliament. When the government suddenly agreed for a debate, most of the opposition members were not present in the house.
