“Many people get summons from courts and they reply to them in courts”.
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Sharma said Congress is not just “anti-development” but also “anti-poor” as it is holding Parliament “hostage” to hide its corruption due to the “arrogance” of a family.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was forthright, saying the Congress leadership was guilty of Goebbelsian propaganda, in claiming to be victims of “political vendetta” in the Herald case. “The issue has to be sorted out in courts not on the streets, not in Parliament, it has to be argued in courts”.
“They have acquired properties worth a huge amount without spending anything”. Pure political vendetta coming out of PMO.
The committee has excluded real estate, electricity, alcohol and petroleum products while calculating tax rates, but has suggested to bringing them under the GST ambit soon.
The government had yet to take any punitive action.
“We have three issues (concerning the Bill) which need to be addressed”, he said.
“But, the results of legal battles are always uncertain”. He also said that there is no point asking questions on the non-funtioning of the parliament.
As a result, senior Congress leaders went out of their way to underline that their protests were not about the National Herald case but about the different yardstick adopted by the government in dealing with BJP leaders and the opposition parties. Or is the BJP pursuing the politics of vendetta? He said the Congress, which has opposed the GST bill over three main demands, should accept the UPA finance minister P. Chidambaram’s proposal for a GST Council or its appointed forum for resolving tax disputes, instead of its demand for a Supreme Court judge being the adjudicating authority.
On Friday, Rahul Gandhi arrived at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Internation Airport, Borjhar, outskirts of Guwahati at around 2 pm and he was welcomed by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, party state unit president Anjan Dutta and other party leaders. “The government is nowhere in the picture”, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here. Singh had made the remarks on Wednesday.
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The Constitution amendment Bill has already been passed by the Lok Sabha, but is stuck in the Rajya Sabha where the ruling National Democratic Alliance lacks majority.
