<div>Industry leaders, including Rahul Bajaj, Adi Godrej and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, have signed an online petition along with 17,000 persons against continued disruptions in Parliament, asking all political parties to end the logjam.</div><div> </div><div>While the call from the 'disheartened' petitioners to begin a consultative and collaborative process for passage of key reforms Bills found support from Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, it was used by JD-U chief Sharad Yadav to attack the government.</div><div> </div><div>Yadav said the charge that the BJP government was "a government for moneybags has been vindicated" in the attack on Parliament by "capitalists".</div><div> </div><div>Started by industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) five days ago, the online petition has been signed by top business leaders such as Infosys Co-Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, Hero Group Chairman Pawan Munjal among others.</div><div> </div><div>More than 17,000 persons have already signed the petition on Change.org.</div><div> </div><div>Elaborating on the petition, CII said the parliamentary paralysis can lead to weakening of India's democracy.</div><div> </div><div>"Recent events have been disheartening. They have the potential of eroding popular faith in Parliament...We, therefore, urge all political parties to have a collaborative and consultative process in Parliament and allow it to function, debate and legislate," CII said.</div><div> </div><div>Supporting the petition, Jaitley said: "Every segment of society has an interest in India's democracy and India's Parliament functioning. And therefore to say that nobody can express an opinion outside Parliament that Parliament must function, I think it is a thought and idea which is to be rejected." </div><div> </div><div>Apart from industrialists, academicians such as IIM Ahmedabad Professor Piyush Kumar Sinha and IIT Madras Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala have signed the petition.<br><br>(PTI)</div>
