Speaker will decide what is unconstitutional, anti-national: NC leader Salman Sagar hits out at BJP

Srinagar, Mar 01: Amid BJP's demand for disallowing unconstitutional, anti-national and undemocratic resolutions and bills in the House, National Conference on Saturday said that the Speaker would decide on business of the House and they (BJP) are just making such statements for scoring brownie points.

To a question that BJP has urged the Speaker that he shouldn't permit any unconstitutional, anti- national and undemocratic activity in the House in the wake of Article 370 resolution submitted by PC president Sajad Gani Lone , the NC today said that the Speaker has to decide on the Business of the House.

“The Speaker would decide on whether any bill is unconstitutional and anti-national and qualifies to be introduced in the House. The Speaker is in the House. A team of legal experts looks into bills to be tabled. The Parliamentary Affairs Ministry ensures that no anti-national or unconstitutional bill is tabled in the House," NC leader and MLA Hazratbal Salman Sagar told reporters as per KNO.

He said that BJP is just making these statements to score brownie points.

PC president Sajad Gani Lone has submitted a resolution in the Assembly seeking condemnation of abrogation of Article 370 and 35(A). Lone has also sought restoration of the pre-August 05, 2019 constitutional position to Jammu and Kashmir. On the other hand, the BJP is demanding that no such resolution should be brought in the House, saying that they wouldn’t permit any unconstitutional and anti- national activity in the House.