new delhi the government is making an effort to salvage the monsoon session of parliament which has so far been stalled by protests from the opposition but the rhetoric on both sides remains sharp and unyielding finance minister arun jaitley on sunday said though congress may be upset with the government for political reasons and also unhappy with the electorate for the 2014 verdict its negativism and obstructionist tactics would hurt the country by delaying much needed laws like gst congress leader anand sharma hit back at the bjp describing jaitleys comments as unwarranted uncharitable and provocative he said it was the arrogance of the prime minister that was holding up parliament and said the significant business transacted in the previous sessions was due to the opposition being ready to work parliament has been paralysed over the congressleft demand that foreign minister sushma swaraj and the chief ministers of rajasthan and madhya pradesh vasundhara raje and shivraj singh chouhan resign over their roles in the lalit modi and vyapam controversies restoring parliamentary functioning is essential for the passage of important bills like goods and services tax and the amended land acquisition and rehabilitation bills we have repeatedly said that the external affairs minister will respond to the opposition bills like gst and land acquisition have been scrutinized by parliamentary committees earlier but they were nonetheless referred to committees again in deference to the wishes of the opposition naid said on current reckoning regional parties like trinamool bjd aiadmk and sp do not support blockading of parliament and have not joined the disruptions even though they have said the government must explain its position on swarajs alleged intercession on behalf of lalit modi to facilitate his travel documents in the uk smaller parties too have not favoured disruption of parliament as they have been keen to raise statecentric issues congress however has stuck to its position that no discussion would be possible without the resignations of the bjp leaders beforehand the tough line is seen to be endorsed in particular by congress vicepresident rahul gandhi the endurance of congress mps has been tested with the speaker refusing to adjourn proceedings and continuing with business for an hourandahalf on friday morning and then again in the afternoon