03-23-2006, 02:17 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Constitutional experts made it clear that the action to adjourn Parliament sine die with no prior notice was totally unprecedented, and this âfiddling with Parliamentâ, as Mr Rajeev Dhawan put it, was last heard of in the days preceding the imposition of Emergency in 1975 â when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi stood in danger of losing her parliamentary seat following an order of the Allahabad high court. Mr Dhawan said that it was a âtotal fraudâ on the nation as the government had bypassed the complainant, bypassed the Election Commission, the President and now Parliament itself.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->