US should not preach India on human rights: Modi,cont.

Earlier, Speaker Meira Kumar told Swaraj that her
notice of Breach of Privilege against the Prime Minister was
being examined by her.
This prompted Swaraj to press for discussion on the
Prime Minister's statement noting that she along with Sharad
Yadav (JD-U) and Yashwant Sinha (BJP) had given notice for
such a debate under Rule 193, which does not entail voting.
At this, Mukherjee retorted, "I do not think heaven is
going to fall if we take up the Finance Bill first. I assure
you that we will have the discussion after the Finance Bill is
passed. I am not making it a prestige issue."
In the Upper House, Leader of the Opposition Arun
Jaitley rose to say that he had given two notices - one on
privilege motion against the Prime Minister and the other
seeking a discussion under Rule 176, which does not entail
voting.
Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan said Chairman Hamid
Ansari was seized of the matter and a decision was yet to be
taken on the two notices given by the Leader of the
Opposition.
However, BJP members persisted that Jaitley should be
allowed to speak.
In the meanwhile, Congress members began waving a
weekly news magazine, which carried reports on alleged
irregularities during the NDA regime when senior BJP leader
Arun Shourie was the Disinvestment Minister.
Khan had a tough time in persuading Congress members
to allow the LoP to speak. Though he repeatedly said the
Leader of the Opposition should be allowed to speak as it is
his privilege, the ruling side members were unrelenting and
shouted "no, no".
In the pandemonium, the House was adjourned, first for
15 minutes and then till 2 PM.
Later Swaraj justified the opposition boycott saying
they were left with "no option" after the government rejected
its demand.
She told reporters that Mukherjee had called her up in
the morning and suggested that the discussion on the Finance
Bill be taken up first and then a debate on the Wikileaks
expose.
Swaraj said she had also suggested that since the
Finance Bill was not to be taken up by the Rajya Sabha, the
debate on PM's statement could be taken up there immediately.
"I told Mukherjee that the Finance Bill is there in
the Lower House but since there is no financial matter in the
Upper House, the debate on PM's statement be held there. But
Mukherjee did not agree," Swaraj said.
She insisted that when the government did not agree to
this, the NDA had no option but to stage a walkout.
"We had assured all support to the government that we
would not cause any constitutional crisis and want the
financial business to be completed," Swaraj said, adding that
despite this the government did not agree to the BJP demand.