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Jesse Ramdeo

Op­po­si­tion chief whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has writ­ten to House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of abus­ing par­lia­men­tary rules and in­fring­ing on the rights of the Op­po­si­tion, fol­low­ing a con­tentious in­ci­dent in the Low­er House last Fri­day that prompt­ed the Op­po­si­tion to walk out.

In a let­ter dat­ed March 11, Gon­za­les said the Op­po­si­tion point­ed out that it be­lieves the par­lia­men­tary process was ma­nip­u­lat­ed when En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal moved a mo­tion un­der Stand­ing Or­der 52(1) to pre­ma­ture­ly end de­bate on a pri­vate mem­ber’s mo­tion.