When Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was introducing the GST Bill yesterday, he was rebuked by Congress parliamentarians who shouted “nahi chalegi”, meaning “this won’t do” in Hindi.
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“I will ask Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge to have patience as they have to sit in opposition for a long time”, he said, reacting to the two Congress leaders attack on the government at a press conference.
Calling this obstructionism unacceptable, he said that NDA will take this to the people by campaigning all over the country. “While the Parliament was getting affected here, Lalit Modi must have been enjoying the show sitting in London”, the Sena said in its editorial mouthpiece ‘Saamana’. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs met and decided not to recommend its proroguing.
“Government rejects all the charges, the question of Sushma Swaraj’s resignation does not arise”. “It is high time the opposition looks within and introspects rather than shooting the messenger and putting freakish allegations against the government”, he said. My entire sympathy is with Sushma-ji.
“This is called quid pro quo”, she said, spelling out the Latin phrase.
Swaraj also targeted former union minister P Chidambaram, saying he had failed to bring back Lalit Modi from United Kingdom as he did not try for his extradition as suggested by the host government and confined his requests to deportation.
The government lacks majority in the upper house and could not take up the Goods and Services Tax Bill, which is regarded as the biggest tax reform since Independence.
In an interview to India Today TV, Modi did a U-turn from his tweets in July when he alleged that Rahul Gandhi and his brother-in-law Robert Vadra were beneficiaries of his hospitality during his tenure as Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner.
“(Narendra) Modi had promised the nation that ’15 lakh black money would go into every bank account.
The Congress vowed not to be silent over Lalit Modi. I had nothing to do with it. They find a non-issue to target me.
“Congress’ old habit of keeping the interest of the Gandhi, Nehru family is coming out in front of the people“. “She held my hand and asked Beta why are you angry with me?”
Allow Me to Speak, Says Sushma Swaraj Amid Lalitgate Chaos in Parliament.
Why didn’t she declare that she had reversed the earlier govenrment’s stand by informing UK officials that if the disgraced tycoon were allowed to accompany his wife to Portugal, relations with India would not be damaged?
He asked how much money Sushma Swaraj’s family got from Lalit Modi and why did she help him in a “humanitarian” way in a hidden manner.
Mr Jaitley also attacked Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, saying he did not know the distinction between a parliamentary speech and a slogan.
The Congress party has exhibited that it continues to be enslaved to a family.
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The minister said the British government conveyed that Lalit Modi was given the travel documents according to appropriate rules.
