NEW DELHI: BJP MPs, together with former Union minister Parshottam Rupala, stormed out of a parliamentary committee assembly on Tuesday, objecting to the presence of social activist Medha Patkar, prompting the committee head to finish the session.Among the BJP MPs known as Patkar an “anti-national,” and one questioned if the “prime minister of Pakistan” may be known as at such a gathering. She has lengthy been accused by the ruling get together of “working towards the nation’s growth pursuits within the title of public and environmental causes.”The Standing Committee on Rural Improvement and Panchayati Raj, headed by Congress’ Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, had invited Patkar to current her views on the implementation and effectiveness of the land acquisition legislation enacted by Parliament when the Congress-led UPA authorities was in energy in 2013.Defending his determine to ask Patkar, Ulaka informed information company PTI that as a normal follow, parliamentary panels hear civil society members and different stakeholders on varied points.He added, “We wished to listen to their views on the land acquisition legislation. We wished an opinion from everybody, however they (BJP) did not enable it.”On his resolution to cancel the assembly, the Congress parliamentarian acknowledged that this was carried out as there was a scarcity of quorum.“As per rule, a quorum of 10 members is required. When the BJP MPs walked out, there was no quorum, and the assembly ended,” Ulaka defined.‘Invitation to Patkar our predominant objection’: BJPA BJP member mentioned their major objection was to calling Patkar, who was the face of the ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’ protest towards a decided push by the Gujarat authorities, headed by then-chief minister Narendra Modi, to boost the peak of the Sardar Sarovar Dam.The state authorities’s views lastly prevailed and Modi, who took over as prime minister in 2014, has typically spoken in regards to the efforts to stall the mission since its basis was laid within the Sixties.In response to a supply, these invited earlier than the panel included officers from the setting and forest ministry. Activists, together with Patkar and actor Prakash Raj, a vocal BJP critic, had been additionally requested to look earlier than the committee.When the assembly began, opposition members had been of the opinion that Patkar needs to be heard. Nonetheless, the saffron get together didn’t agree.‘By no means skilled something like this’: Medha PatkarRequested in regards to the incident, Patkar replied she was invited to look earlier than the panel, and whereas she and others had been ready, they noticed some MPs go away.Later, they had been knowledgeable that the assembly had ended, she added, and famous that she has appeared earlier than parliamentary committees earlier as properly.“I’ve by no means skilled something like this earlier than. You will need to speak in regards to the land acquisition legislation,” Patkar mentioned.