New Delhi: Slamming the Opposition as Parliament adjourned sine die on the last day of the monsoon session without conducting any major business, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the regular disruptions by the Opposition were a negation of democracy and a violation of norms of Parliament and the Constitution.
"We have great respect for the CAG. However, if we respect it, we should be willing to discuss its reports in the House and at the PAC. This is negation of democracy, violation of norms of Parliament and the Constitution as we have understood it," Singh said.
He said that the time wasted by Parliament could have been better utilised in discussing more crucial problems grappling the country like terrorism and Naxalism.
"Parliament should have debated these issues. The country needed to know. Parliament is a forum to speak to people. It should have discussed the global economic developments. I would like the countrymen to make up their mind if this is the way that democracy functions," he said, adding, "All right thinking people in the country should see what happened."
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