Coalgate and We
THE whole week of parliament has been wasted as the no party is ready to budge. The NDA is bent on resignation of PM while UPA is insisting on debate over the issue. The issue is that the nation lost Rs. 1.86 lakh crore as the coal mines were not auctioned. UPA insists that it followed the policy set by the previous regime of NDA and therefore NDA is to be blamed. Besides, UPA has put forward the theory of zero loss (with the same arguments it tries to defend the losses of 2G) as out of the 57 mines in question, no coal has been extracted in 56. Besides, UPA has alleged that NDA does not want to discuss the issue as NDA will be exposed because the allocations were made on the recommendations of BJP governments. All these points raise several issues. First, both UPA and NDA have explained in various TV debates what they should have explained in the Parliament. They have made enough attempts to expose each other. Even if Parliament debates about the issue, there will not be anything