NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi denounced the controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as “complete nonsense” and said what “our government has done is wrong. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s open dissent on Friday for the government’s ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs has generated a huge political backlash from BJP.
In a major embarrassment to the UPA government
BJP Leader Arun Jaitley said, “After this statement, PM & his cabinet should think about their self-respect once. If this is nonsense, then the heads that brought this nonsense must roll. The Congress party reject the ordinance is a desperate damage control exercise and Arun Jaitley said, “It seems the Government can make mistakes but the Congress’s first family cannot,”
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Jaitley hit out Mocking at Gandhi’s statement BJP leader, “Which decision in the Congress can be taken without permission of Sonia ji and Rahul ji?” and Meenakshi Lekhi of BJP said, ” This (Rahul Gandhi’s statement on ordinance) is pure politics.” “The President was probably returning the ordinance, so someone had to take the credit, so it was him (Rahul Gandhi),” she hit out. “It’s a political stunt, the timing is questionable,” she added.
Sushil Kumar Modi of BJP also said, “Before tearing this ordinance Rahul ji should dismiss the cabinet which passed it.” Making a surprise brief appearance at a meet-the-press programmed of his party’s general secretary Ajay Maken at the Press Club, Rahul Gandhi said the ordinance should be “torn up and thrown away. I personally think that whatever the government is doing on this ordinance is wrong,” “My personal opinion about the ordinance on lawmakers is that it is complete nonsense, it should be torn and thrown away,” he added.
Following the surprise announcement by Gandhi, Maken said, “The situation has evolved, Rahul ji explained, he doesn’t believe convicted persons should be elected.” Maken went on to say, “Rahul Gandhi is our Vice President, his opinion is our opinion.” “Rahul Gandhi has taken this step on high moral and principle ground,” he added. The President is understood to have asked the ministers what was the urgency to bring an ordinance when there was a bill already pending before Parliament on the issue.
Bureau Report
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