“The Congress party is trying to fight the legal battle in the Parliament instead of fighting it in the court”.
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“The Government cannot help them in the matter, nor can the Parliament”.
Noting that the ministers had said they did not approve of his comments, he said a lack of apology from him meant that he was in fact being supported by the government. The UPA, which had in 2006 mooted the GST, had failed to build consensus amongst the states over issues such as loss of revenue to manufacturing states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat as the new regime was more a destination oriented tax. They also demanded that action be taken in the Vyapam case and against Union minister VK Singh who recently liked the death of two Dalit children to the stoning of a dog. Enforcement Directorate has not issued any notice. “Tax authorities have not passed any assessment order”, he said at the Aaj Tak Agenda programme.
Jaitley rejected that there was any bitterness or enmity between the government and the opposition party, despite the growing animosity that has led to the constant stalling of Parliament. “In this case, what step has the Government of India taken for which Parliament can be obstructed?” he asked. “The way the BJP leaders are intending to sully the image of Sonia and Rahul, in the same way they had tried to defame Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi earlier”, Digvijay told reporters here. After hearing, the High Court dismisses it. Now you either go to trial court or you challenge it in Supreme Court. Jaitley also said the government was not a party to the dispute.
“It is the intolerance of the Narendra Modi government that they are targeting innocent people like us, whose drivers happened to innocently invest 90 Crores in a company”, she continued.
Besides, both the Congress and the Trinamool Congress have a point in saying that the interest which the central authorities have shown in the National Herald case is not visible in the Vyapam and the public distribution system scams in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which are governed by the BJP. These include former Union minister Ashwani Kumar, party general secretary BK Hariprasad and Raj Babbar.
“Perception against you could be wrong (that you are not letting the house function because of the National Herald case), but if you want to correct it, let the coming Monday be a good day, a working day”, he said in the Rajya Sabha replying to Azad’s charges. “Your finance minister in his blogs and on Facebook says that this is an offence under the Income Tax Act”.
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Later, addressing a rally at the playground of Medhirtari High School, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced a package of Rs 1,000 crore for the development of the minority people of the State.
