He further said that the three suggestions made by Congress “go contrary” to what former finance ministers P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee had proposed. “There are two very competent lawyers representing the persons before the court, the Congress president and the vice-president, I am sure they have examined all the options”.
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When asked if the Goods and Services Tax Bill was listed for passage with a week left for the Winter Session to conclude, Naqvi said that the GST was listed. “The Congress is, therefore, crying foul and calling it political vendetta”, he wrote.
“If they don’t turn up, issue a warrant and send them to jail”, Swamy said in the book-lined study of his South Delhi residence, where case papers were scattered across his desk. “The political vendetta is very much in action and that we will protest”, said Chacko, adding that the functioning of Parliament is the responsibility of the government.
In an exclusive interview given to ANI, Chidambaram, when asked what was the way out of the current political logjam, categorically said, “I don’t see any link between the National Herald case and what’s happening in Parliament”.
Suddenly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited Congress president Sonia Gandhi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh for tea on November 27 after his reply on “Commitment to Constitution” in Rajya Sabha on the same day in which he praised first PM Jawaharlal Nehru and spoke about the virtues of conciliation and consensual decision-making.
Guwahati: Even as the Congress in Assam is hoping for a fourth straight term in power after next year’s Assembly election, party vice-president and MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday did not rule out the possibility of an alliance in Assam that contradicts chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s stand that the party will fight the polls on its own in the state. They can either challenge the order in the Supreme Court or appear before the trial court and contest the case on merits.
In a blog post late on Thursday about the case, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley backed Swamy and criticised Congress for disrupting parliamentary business because of it.
The accused face allegations that they illegally acquired property worth Rs. 5,000 crore belonging to the National Herald newspaper. They have transferred the income of a political party to another company. “The Government has passed no order in relation to the disputed transactions”, he said.
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India has never accepted the dictat that the queen is not answerable to the law. “By disrupting democracy, the financial web created by the Congress leaders can not be undone”, he added. However, Jaitley asserted that prima facie there was a “breach of provisions of the Income-Tax Act” in the transactions and indicated that “income tax authorities would follow their own procedure”.
