‘Gandhi’s comments on National Herald case insult to democracy’

Prospects of a forward movement on GST appeared in sight on Friday with the government giving some proposals to the Congress and expecting a response by Monday when Parliament meets again with just few working days left for the winter session to conclude.

“We could implement GST from April 1, 2016 from administrative point of view”, he said while talking to a global audience on YouTube on India’s reforms agenda. He also cited the example of the “Give it Up” campaign, under which more than 52 lakh people had so far given up their LPG subsidies and helped the government to provide LPG connections to 46 lakh people who were dependent on “chulhas”.

Asked if he would be applying for bail, he replied, “Let’s see what happens on December 19”. “We are protesting against your policies of repression”.

Without naming Sonia or Rahul Gandhi, Jaitley said the Congress leaders created a “Chakravyuh” for themselves through a series of financial transactions where tax-exempt income of a political party was transfered to a real estate company.

Kharge said BJP member Virendra Singh has not only refused to apologise but also insisted that he stood by what he had said in his attack on Congress leaders. “It is so hard to shout for an hour without securing adjournment of the House”.

Rahul Gandhi, who interacted with women entrepreneurs in Guwahati and addressed grass-roots workers of the Congress said his party would return to power in Assam in the next assembly elections.

“Our External Affairs Minister has gone to Pakistan and she has forcefully raised her voice against terrorism”, he said, claiming her visit has diffused some tension in the ties between the two countries.

After the Speaker disallowed him from speaking, TMC members staged a walkout. They must go to their seats. “I don’t think any notice were sent to any of the shareholders”.

“The Congress party is trying to fight the legal battle in the Parliament instead of fighting it in the court”.

Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi (L) listens to her son and lawmaker Rahul Gandhi (R), at her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial, on the occasion of his 23rd death anniversary, in New Delhi May 21, 2014.

“In the media there is some sense that the National Herald and the GST are linked”.

Asserting that Congress has full faith in judiciary, he said it was the government’s actions of opening cases against opposition leaders that forced them to raise voice in the temple of democracy when democracy itself was being “murdered and slaughtered”. “Nobody has lost any money or made any money in this”, said the senior lawyer.