New Delhi: Five Janata Dal (United) MPs resigned from the Lok Sabha on Friday to protest against the attacks on North Indians in Congress-ruled Maharashtra.
"What option did we have when the Constitution is under attack and the unity and integrity of the country is in peril because of the incidents in Maharashtra?" said JD(U) Lok Sabha leader Prabhunath Singh.
He was talking to reporters after he and four other MPs, George Fernandes, Rajiv Ranjan Singh ‘Lallan’, Kailash Baitha and Meena Singh, submitted their resignation to Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Achary.
The resignations have come at a time when politics is heating up in Bihar on the issue of the attacks allegedly by the Raj Thackeray-led MNS and the JD (U) MPs even made an oblique attack on RJD chief Lulu Parsed as also LJP leader Ram Vilas Aswan for failing to quit the Union Cabinet on the issue.
"When the Central government is being seen surrendering to the divisive forces, ministers from Hindi region are wanting to enjoy power and not leave their posts," they said.
Singh accused Parsed of “sticking” to his ministerial chair and dismissed RJD charges that the JD (U) was instrumental in breaking the unity of leaders from Bihar on the emotive issue.
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