“India has never accepted the diktat that the queen is not answerable to the law”. Moored to the Nehru-Gandhi family, the Congress party’s own future is inextricably tied to the fate of its top leaders. The government asked the Gandhi scion to stop making “loose statements outside Parliament” and in fact speak inside the House if he had any solid proof on PMO’s involvement in raking up the case.
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However, fate took a queer turn the very next week and now the Congress is on the defensive while the BJP is gloating over the developments in the National Herald case.
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 11.30 after uproar over National Herald case.
“If they want to create noise, they can go to Jantar Mantar or to Gandhi Samadhi, they will get some wisdom…”, said Naqvi. They have acquired properties worth a huge amount without spending anything. Not just Sonia and Rahul, but nearly every political party or politician facing any kind of investigation or trial for wrongdoing has now used this line to claim victimhood. The accused leaders of the Congress Party move the Delhi High Court for quashing, which grants them an interim protection.
The escalation of confrontation between the Congress and the government over “political vendetta”, following decision of a court to summon its leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on a complaint of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, appears to have caused uncertainty on the fate of the crucial GST bill.
He also raised the reported meeting of a Union Minister with a Muzaffarnagar riot accused in jail and his assurance of support to them.
“By disrupting Parliament on the issue and calling the summons by the trial court political vendetta, Congress has proved that it believes in nothing”, Hussain said in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
She added that she was not sure about it as Congress members have been bringing up some or the other issue. But the results of legal battles are always uncertain. Is that a charge against the courts?”Jaitley asked”.
Anybody who routinely calls investigations into crime or court orders involving them as a conspiracy or vendetta is essentially saying the law should not apply to them. Its Goebbelsian propaganda is that the party’s leadership is a victim of political vendetta.
The GST Bill is supposed to be a big boost to ease of doing business in India and all kinds of merchants will benefit from the passage of the bill, which does away with the current state sales regime.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the drought situation in several parts of the country, parliamentarian Virendra Singh on Wednesday challenged the Congress leaders on their knowledge about the farmers in the country.
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“I don’t know if the Prime Minister was referring to this disruption of Parliament or the disruption which his party created two years back”. “By disrupting democracy the financial web created by the Congress leaders can not be undone”, the finance minister added.
