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            This is for the information of the Members whose amendments have already been circulated and who wanted to move their amendments.

            Motion moved:

“That an Address be presented to the President in the following terms:-
 
That the Members of the Lok Sabha assembled in this Session are deeply grateful to the President for the Address which he has been pleased to deliver to both Houses of Parliament assembled together on February 23, 2007.”               Now, Shri L.K. Advani.
SHRI KINJARAPU YERRANNAIDU (SRIKAKULAM): In Andhra Pradesh, there are 3540 cases.
SHRI L.K. ADVANI : I know that.  When your Government was there, the Opposition – the Congress Party – made that a real issue. … (Interruptions)
उपाध्यक्ष महोदय: मिस्त्री जी, आपने अपनी बात कह ली है। आप कृपया इनकी बात सुनें।
...(व्यवधान)
श्री लाल कृष्ण आडवाणी : महोदय, केवल मिस्त्री जी ऐसे हैं, जिनसे मैं कभी-कभी गुजरात की आलोचना सुनता हूं। मुझे गर्व है कि मैं गुजरात का प्रतनधि हूं। मैं जहां भी जाता हूं, वहां मुझे सब कहते हैं कि कमाल का आपका मुख्यमंत्री है और कमाल की आपकी सरकार है। यह प्रमाणपत्र तो सबसे पहले राजीव गांधी फाउंडेशन ने दिया है। मिस्त्री जी, मुझे आप पर तरस आता है।
SHRI B.K. HANDIQUE:    This is alleged reporting… (Interruptions)
SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Understand one thing. If you have not done anything in respect of accreditation of that journal, nothing would have happened.  He went to the court and the Supreme Court intervened.  Why do you invite the intervention of the Supreme Court on matters of this kind? 
THE MINISTER OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES (SHRI SONTOSH MOHAN DEV): What about High Court judgement? … (Interruptions)
SHRI L.K. ADVANI : I am coming to another Supreme Court judgement which deals with the political leadership directly.  But this particular matter is related to the Press.  I have known the Emergency from in and out.  Even at that time I used to say that if during the Emergency, only politicians had been arrested, if during the Emergency only the authority of the judiciary had been undermined, it would not have been so disastrous for democracy as the attacks that were made on the media at that time.  The curbs that were imposed on the media were the most shameful.  I find that, after so many years, instead of learning lessons from the   * Not recorded Emergency, here is a Government which takes away the accreditation card of a TV channel for covering National Games there.  Similarly, I find that a very highly respected journalist of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Ramoji Rao,  is under attack because he is exposing the corruption of that Government. 
SHRI B. MAHTAB (CUTTACK): He was released on bail.
SHRI L.K. ADVANI :  There is no explanation till he was released on bail. That is true. It is because the lower court said: “No bail. We will not give it.”  Then, he went to a superior court.  Until he was released on bail, there was no explanation. Then the news came up. Now, Mr. Prime Minister, you say  that this right to information is there, the people should know of it, Parliament should know of it. After all, the most important thing is the voice of the Parliament, their right to have their voice heard. It has been said: