The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lambasted the Congress for disrupting the proceedings in both the Houses of Parliament without any reason.
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Let the Gandhis and the Congress fight it out legally, he said. “Why should I be scared of anyone?”
JD(U) today offered its support to the contentious GST Bill but put the onus of its passage in the ongoing Parliament session on the government, saying it has to make efforts to win over opposition, especially Congress which is protesting on the National Herald issue.
“This is the way the government functions”. “This is the way the union government tries to silence me”, he told the media Tuesday. This is not going to happen.
In Puducherry, the very day, Rahul said: “I absolutely see a political vendetta”.
Accordingly, from ministers in the Parliamentary Affairs department – M Venkaiah Naidu, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Rajiv Pratap Rudy – to Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore, the message being delivered was that the Congress was holding GST to ransom because its leaders are embroiled in corruption cases. “Both the Congress president and former prime minister told Prime Minister Modi that we have three major concerns on the GST Bill and we have given our formulations of all those concerns should be addressed in the Bill” he said, referring to the meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence at 7, race Course Road, recently.
Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen granted the Gandhis and others exemption from personal appearance on Tuesday.
BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy had filed a complaint before a trial court in 2012 and the aforementioned were named as accused in a case pertaining to Section 403 (Dishonest misappropriation of property), Section 406 (Punishment for criminal breach of trust), and Section 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) read with Section 120B (Punishment for criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
“It’s sad that she (Sonia Gandhi) has been asked to appear personally in court”, said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
“It does not give any political party the legitimacy to mortgage a political power or political strength in the Parliament and sacrifice national interest for the sake of protecting yourselves from the clutches of law”, he added.
At the time, AJL, which had Vora as its chairman, claimed that it couldn’t repay the mortgage and agreed to switch the corporate and its belongings to YIL.
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Having been reduced to a miniscule minority in the Lok Sabha, Congress is obstructing legislative business in the Rajya Sabha using its numbers. Members of non-NDA parties including Aam Aadmi Party, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party had been targeted, he added. Congress members were shouting slogans like “Modi teri tanashahi nahi chalegi, nahi chalegi”. “Truth will come out”, Gandhi said.
