Rahul Gandhi repeats political vendetta charge against PMO

He said neither the government nor parliament could help the Congress in this matter.

Raising slogans against the ruling dispensation, the Congress leaders alleged that dictatorship on part of the government would not be accepted.

“So, the issue is driven by the PMO and that it is a legal issue and we will tackle it legally”, Rahul Gandhi told reporters here. This is pure political vendetta coming out of the PMO. Due to which there is a huge protest taken place in the Parliament and the long pending GST bill is not been discussed in both, Lower and Upper house. It is their way of doing politics…

Keeping that in mind, Modi, who had recently invited Sonia over for tea, tweeted good wishes to the Congress chief.

In the Rajya Sabha, TMC’s Derek O’Brien repeated the Congress” “political vendetta charge.’ The disruptions provoked Naidu’s junior Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to dub the Congress as anti-development.

Congress also appeared to be showing signs of flexibility on its demands which include a cap on the GST rate at 18 percent, deletion of the provision which allows imposition of one percent tax by additional levy and an independent dispute resolution mechanism. Its claim, therefore, that the Narendra Modi government is no more than a bystander in the face-off between the Congress’s big guns and Swamy, who is a member of the BJP’s national executive, will not be widely believed.

“Congress is resorting to mobocracy, not democracy”.

Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge accused the government of “intimidating the opposition”. “We all know what happened during the Emergency… lakhs went to prison, everyone knows the state of the judiciary then, ” he said. “They have created huge taxable income in favour of the second company”, he said.

The BJP spokesman said coming together in Uttar Pradesh of “secular” parties on the lines of Bihar’s “grand alliance” was impossible and that the BJP was going to get a two-thirds majority in the assembly elections scheduled for early 2017.

Senior advocates Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Harin Raval and Ramesh Gupta appeared for the Gandhis and other accused and moved separate pleas seeking exemption from personal apperance for their clients for Tuesday only.