Indian parliament shut down for a month by opposition demands for scandal probe
NEW DELHI (AP) — Here is what the parliament of the world’s largest democracy was supposed to discuss Tuesday: teaching conditions in private schools, a raging Maoist insurgency, sexual harassment legislation and banking and prisoner bills. Instead, it collapsed into pandemonium — again. For the 18th day, opposition lawmakers charged to the front the instant India’s parliament opened, holding protest signs, chanting slogans and forcing it to adjourn with almost nothing accomplished. With just six more working days left before parliament goes on a two-month break, it appears likely the entire winter session will be lost, the victim of a telecommunications scandal that has cost the…
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