Govt holds all-party meet on FDI Issue -Monday Nov 26,2012

In a bid to end the deadlock in Parliament over the FDI in retail issue, government today held an all-party meeting to find a way out amid Opposition demand for a discussion on it under a rule which entail voting.

 Parties who attended the meeting
The meeting, held in Parliament House, was chaired by Leader of the Lok Sabha Sushil Kumar Shinde and attended by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley, NDA Working Chairperson L K Advani, JD(U) Chief Sharad Yadav, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Reoti Raman Singh and Naresh Agrawal (both SP), T R Baalu (DMK), BSP leader Mayawati, her party colleague Satish Chandra Mishra, Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC) and Arjun Charan Sethi (BJD) were among those present.
                                                                 

Leaders of other parties, including from TDP, RJD, NC, RLD, SAD were also present.

Consensus Eludes all-party Meet on FDI in Retail

BJP, JD-U, Left parties are insisting on discussion on FDI in retail under rules entailing voting.
"We are not ready to compromise. Nothing short of 184," Sushma Swaraj said, emerging from the meeting.

Rule 184 entails voting on an issue after a debate.


Samajwadi Party(SP)is ready for discussion on FDI in Retail,it is for the Speaker to decide

We should leave it to the Chair in both Houses to decide under which rule discussion on FDI should be held, says BSP chief Mayawati.

Trinamool Congress(TMC) at all-party meeting says Speaker should decide "how the House should run".

“I have appealed to those who want a discussion under Rule 184 (in Lok Sabha) to reconsider their views. I have heard everybody's view. I will discuss the matter with the presiding officers of both Houses to see how Parliament gets to work. We will find a way out,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told reporters after the meeting

Impasse on FDI in Retail Issue Continues
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday Nov 28,2012 met Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her counterpart in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley here and requested them not to press for a voting motion. However, the BJP leaders conveyed to the Minister in unambiguous terms that they would settle for nothing less than a motion under Rule 184 in the Lok Sabha and Rule 167 in the Rajya Sabha.
After the meeting, Kamal Nath told reporters that though the government was opposed to a voting motion, it decided to leave it to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari to decide on the rule to ensure smooth functioning of Parliament.

Impasse ends as Speaker allows FDI debate with voting

“I have received 30 notices for discussion on FDI in multi-brand retail under Rule 184. I have admitted the motion to allow the discussion. The date and the time will be decided later,” the Speaker announced in the House on Thursday Nov 29,2012

The announcement came minutes after the Leader of the House Sushilkumar Shinde, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamalnath and Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj met her in her chamber before the House met for the day.