New Delhi: Ultimately the cabinet overturned its earlier decision to provide immunity to convicted MPs and MLAs from immediate disqualification and thus the dream of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi come true. After a meeting, presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his cabinet, the decision comes to its end.
Needless to say, Union Cabinet has to take the decision on the ordinance as Rahul Gandhi has forced upon trashing of the government on the decision of the ordinance related to conviction of MPs and MLAs.
However the decision come to its end after a long consultations with not only inside the Congress Party, but also UPA allies also witnesses the move after the controversy in which vice president Rahul Gandhi has ruled out the suggestion by the government on the controversial bill.
Thus information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari informed that the Union Cabinet at its meeting unanimously decided that both the ordinance with regards to certain section of the Representation of the people Act as well as the Bill would be withdrawn.
Tewari defended the government move saying that decision was reversed as the government was sensitive to public opinion and was not authoritarian in nature.
Meanwhile BJP president Rajnath Singh has denied Congress allegation that his party had agreed to the ordinance on convicted lawmakers. He gave BJP and President Pranab Mukherjee full credit for the decision taken by the Cabinet on the controversial bill.
Why ? Why ? Why ?
ReplyDeleteFor many hours yesterday , on a number of TV channels , experts were asking :
Why,
Man Mohan Singh cow-towed before Rahul ?
Cabinet surrendered its supremacy to Sonia ?
Sonia kept quiet against son’s insubordination ?
Sushma Swaraj ( & Co ) did not oppose the bill initially ?
Milind Deora was silenced ?
Samajwadi Party wants the Ordinance passed – even as a Bill ?
Narendra Modi is deafeningly silent on the entire episode ?
Subramaniam Swamy feels dejected ?
Rajnath Singh is trying to corner all credit ?
Sharad Pawar was sulking with back-stabbing ?
Manish Tewari was just about to cry ?
Mahesh Jethmalani had no answer for Babulal Bokhadia ?
Ram Jethmalani called Rahul , an unlikely hero ?
Gurudas Dasgupta sounded “ holier than thou “ ?
Kapil Sibbal / Chidambaram hid from the media ?
Rahul failed to apologize to PM , in public ?
Arnab Goswami forgo his divine right to drown the panelists ?
My own take of the entire episode :
Why keep asking the “ why “ ?
Why must we forever try to figure out the “ cause “ ?
Why are we obsessed with the presumed ulterior “ motives ” ?
Why can’t we just be happy that the will of the people has prevailed ?
Why not let the future unravel itself ?
Why not rejoice with the outcome ?
Instead of merely speculating what will happen next , why not people – and media –assert themselves and speak up loudly about,
# Political parties to be covered by RTI
# Electoral Reforms
# Women’s Representation
# Jan Lok Pal Bill…etc
Let us send out to the corrupt – and power hungry – politicians , a very loud and clear , “ Do or Die “ call !
• Hemen parekh ( 03 Oct 2013 )