NEW DELHI: The colour black is being discussed for the last couple of days in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament. It is right for some and wrong for some others.
The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs of the group belonging to 26 opposition parties attended Parliament dressed in black. It was resorted to as a mark of protest against the government’s handling of the ethnic violence in Manipur.
Right from Congress president and leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge to Priyanka Chaturvedi of Shiv Sena (UBT), Derek O’Brien of TMC and Lok Sabha MP Shahi Tharoor of the Congress, all were dressed in black. They were observing a black Thursday.
Commerce minister and leader of the Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal mocked the opposition for dressing in black colour. In a poem in Hindi, he said the past of the opposition was, their present is and their future will be black (dark).
Taking to Twitter, Tharoor posted several pictures of him in black dress. He said, “Opposition MPs from the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) Alliance were dressed in black in Parliament today as a mark of protest against the Government’s mismanagement of Manipur and its continued silence on the ongoing tragedy there, as I explained to Minister @Gen_VKSingh and to the media when I came out of the Lok Sabha.”
A day earlier the BJP and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha engaged in a banter of “black crow”.
The Delhi unit of the BJP has tweeted pics of a crow hovering over and troubling Chadha outside Parliament. Chadha was seen talking on the phone and then ducking to avoid the crow.
The Delhi BJP quoted the famous Bollywood song "Jhoot bole kauvva kaate" (the crow bites the liar). "Till today, we only heard it. Today, we have seen the crow bite the liar," it said.
Without losing a chance to hit back at the BJP, the AAP leader tweeted quoting another popular Bollywood song: "Ramchandra keh gaye Siya se, aisa kalyug aayega; hans chugega daana dun ka, kauwa moti khayega (Lord Ramchandra had told Sita ji that such a bad era will come that the swan will eat the grains and the crow will eat the pearls. Till today only heard, today also saw).
Black is certainly being discussed in Parliament.
