New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing his disappointment over disruptions stalling legislation, said that it was a ‘matter of sorrow’ that Parliament was not running.
After the winter session began two weeks ago, Modi had initially said that Parliament was running smoothly and that all the parties deserve credit for the same.
At the Jagran Forum in Delhi, Modi said that it was not just the GST, but many pro-poor initiatives which were stuck in the Parliament and that Democracy cannot function at the whims and fancies of anyone.
The GST, the government’s flagship proposal and the biggest tax reform since independence needs to be passed in the Parliament to meet the April deadline for its implementation. The government needs support of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha where it is a minority.
This week, the government-opposition conflict intensified over the National Herald case in which Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi have to appear in court on December 19 to face allegations that they illegally acquired property worth Rs. 5,000 crore belonging to the National herald newspaper. The petitioner is the BJP’s Subramanian Swamy.
But, the Congress today dorced repeated adjournments in the Rajya Sabha accusing the PM and the ruling BJP of “vendetta politics”.
