PM Modi’s dig at Congress: Democracy can’t function on whims of anyone

But, the political war that has broken out over the National Herald issue between the Congress and the government after a Delhi court asked Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and three others to present themselves in the court has suddenly queered the pitch for the government. “This is the way the central government functions, the way they think”.

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.

He said Congress leaders have to find a way out of the “chakravyuh” that is their own creation.

Responding to Congress’ charges, Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in the Rajya Sabha that if the Congress was anxious about its current perception among people and wants to correct it, the party must let the house function from Monday onwards.

Congress says the timing of the courtroom’s motion has been influenced by politics, however Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) denies this.

Congress national spokesman Sanjay Jha stated the political wrangling had “neutralised” Modi’s assembly with Sonia Gandhi on November 27, their first since he turned prime minister in May 2014, to hunt a method ahead on the GST.

“A meeting with the government can happen only after that, but there is no certainty or even talks on a possible date for it right now”, the person said.

Swamy, who merged his small political party with Modi’s in 2013, is best known for successfully running a legal campaign against the last Congress government over a multi-billion-dollar spectrum-allocation scam. “It is still a work in progress and we need to take a fair and considered view and not to rush it through as it has far reaching impact on our taxation”, Sharma said. “The Enforcement Directorate”, he said, “has not issued any notice to them”.

Sources said the top Congress leadership would meet Sunday to discuss the strategy in Parliament for the next week as also the next course of action on the GST Bill. However the talk is only centred on GST versus Parliament.

The clock is ticking on the winter session of Parliament which is scheduled to conclude on 23 December. Singh had made the remarks on Wednesday.

Pitching for early passage of the GST Bill in the Rajya Sabha, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said efforts to create hurdle will amount to damaging the country.