LS set for confrontation over land bill tomorrow

March 09, 2015 21:05

Lok Sabha is set to witness a confrontation over Land Acquisition Bill tomorrow when it is taken up for voting with opposition bent on opposing it even as the government again offered to make changes in the legislation in the "larger interest" of the farming community.

NDA partner Shiv Sena, meanwhile, was ambivalent on the issue, even though its support will hardly matter in the Lower House where BJP has majority on its own.

Toughening its stand, Congress today decided that it will vote against the bill unless it is sent to the Parliamentary Standing Committee or presented in the original form as passed in 2013. It decided to issue a three-line whip to its members in the Lower House asking them to be present and vote against the measure.

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