New Delhi, Feb 22: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj Saturday blamed the Congress-led UPA government for the disruptions within the 15th Lok Sabha.

Sushma Swaraj, who is the leader of opposition within the Lok Sabha, conjointly defended the BJP and its allies, saying they disrupted parliament to “expose the scams of government”.

“This Lok Sabha saw the best variety of disruptions. This government had so many scams, a replacement one came up within the interval of each session. the govt needed us to set them aside and let the parliament prolong… however we had to stall the parliament to reveal the govt and its corruption,” she said.

“But the new trend witnessed in this session was disruptions by government members. 3 sessions were sacrificed over protests on Telangana, in which only government members disrupted the house,” she said whereas addressing a press conference daily once the last session of the 15th Lok Sabha complete.

“Many outstanding legislations are gone this Lok Sabha… however we could have passed some more smart legislations if parliament would have functioned,” she added.

The 15th Lok Sabha has been the foremost disrupted ever with overall productivity being 61 p.c. simply 13 p.c of the time was spent on legislative business, 74 major bills were left unfinished and 20 bills were passed with but 5 minutes of debate.

The fifteenth Lok Sabha (2009-14) met for 357 days and one,338 hours against a mean of 600 days and three,700 hours for the primary 3 Lok Sabhas (1952-67).