New Delhi, March 9 -- With the second phase of the budget session set to resume today, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh criticised the central government for bypassing a full parliamentary debate on the West Asia conflict in favor of a ministerial statement from EAM Jaishankar, drawing a comparison with the 2003 Iraq war debate in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

In an X post, Ramesh attached two pictures from the 2003 discussions in the lower and upper houses, to emphasize his previous call for a full-fledged discussion in Parliament on the evolving situation in West Asia.

"Here is the Resolution on the US-led invasion of Iraq adopted unanimously in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha after an extensive debate on April 9, 2003," he wrote on X. ...