Rahul Gandhi: Ordinance on convicted lawmakers 'complete nonsense'

Moneylife Digital Team 27 September 2013

By making such a statement, Rahul Gandhi has made public the differences between the UPA government and Congress

Embarrassing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Rahul Gandhi has said the Ordinance on convicted lawmakers should be torn away.

Making a surprise entry into a press conference of Ajan Maken at Press Club in Delhi, the Congress vice president said, "It's complete nonsense. It should be torn up and thrown away."

Interestingly, Congress chief spokesperson Maken had defended the Ordinance minutes before Rahul Gandhi opposed it.

Gandhi said the government's argument is that it needs to do this for political considerations. "It's time to stop this. We cannot continue to make compromises," he said and added: "I personally feel that what the Government is doing is wrong."

The move is definitely an embarrassment to the Government, which was fiercely defending the Ordinance till the other day. The President himself was unhappy with the Ordinance.

Several Congress leaders, including Digvijay Singh, had opposed the Ordinance. By making such a statement, Rahul Gandhi made public the differences between the government and the Party.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has made it clear that it may hear the plea against the proposed Ordinance to protect convicted lawmakers from disqualification only after the law gets the nod from the President.

In response to the submission that the Presidential nod to the ordinance was merely a formality, a bench of Justices AK Patnaik and JS Kehar said, “Suppose the Ordinance is passed, we can still pass the stay order. You mention the matter on Monday, if it is cleared.”

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Dayananda Kamath k

1 decade ago

then does he consider the land bill a good bill which was brought at his insistance for doing heroism in U.P.by supporting those agitators who attacked the police party to protect the kidnapped govt employees.if you have to pay 4times the market value for acquiring land who will acquire land unless he is insane. so they have blocked the land acquisition for development by this legislation. does he belive the food security bill is good one which is credited to his mother.you allow food grins to wrott and make a law to subsidise food articles whopping 40 times and crib over petrol susbsidy.oilfund which was created for this purpose by public by paying higher price for such a contignency was assurped by his father in his first budget to show lesser fiscal deficit. even one of the main reason for inflation was extending mnrega to all districts at his insistence. rs 80,000 crores were just pumped into the eonomy without any corresponding developmental activity. if corporates can take action for financial mismanagement then why not the cabinet for mismanaging the economy to serve the purposes of unconstitutional authorities.

MOHAN

1 decade ago

His sudden appearance to address the media shows his immaturity. His father during his initial days as PM showed the same immaturity. We have seen many such antics from his late father (His foreign trips and diverting the aircraft on midair etc.,)

History repeats itself !

Seshamani

1 decade ago

In fact Aadhar should be prohibited for any country related or national related or citizen related matter. Let it be just a private service to people at large, worldwide, as an identification system that is authenticated by the Unique Identification of India (World?). Let it just be a worldwide service for all people and let Aadhar guys make iot a for profit organization that can work toi contribute paise to the CAD problem that we have. Let it be a business. We in India can go back to what we had before - fraudproof because it is inefficient and distributed and flexible and human oriented and understandable and usable by the common man - better for all.

Seshamani

1 decade ago

It must be a rare identification card, indeed, for a country, which can be obtained by foreigners and illegal aliens and further qualify for a host of benefits via direct transfer, that would be normally available to citizens below the poverty line! One can have hypocrisy, but this takes inefficiency to a new height. It looks as if the biggest follies of our country are embarked upon with minimum debate or none at all, on the basis of whim and fancy and the niceness of the people concerned. Then again, it is doing the work of the fraudster for him: agglomerating all identification data of a person at a single location. Now the fraudster only has to solve one set of problems. Wonderful - we are not far from anarchy.