President expresses reservation over Rahul's anti-graft ordinances

President expresses reservation over Rahul's anti-graft ordinances

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has reportedly expressed reservations over the government's plan to push through Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's pet anti-corruption Bills via ordinance route. The President is believed to have expressed his reservations on the proposals when Law Minister Kapil Sibal met him on Saturday.

In the run to the Lok Sabha elections, the Bills assume huge significance in order to change Congress's image and to portray Rahul as an anti-corruption crusader.

The Cabinet is likely to meet on Sunday evening and sources said that a decision on the ordinances would be finalised then. On Friday, the Congress Core Group was divided on the ordinance route to pass the legislations.

Rahul had called for the ordinance route to get these legislations into effect. The UPA had tried hard to pass the Bills on the last day of the extended winter session of Parliament but the House was adjourned sine die.

Rahul had said, "I have always said that action speaks louder than words but the Opposition does not want to support us in passing the anti-corruption Bills. They have betrayed the people of India. We are considering the ordinance route."

The Bills include the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, the Whistle Blowers Protection Bill, the Public Procurement Bill and the Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Grievance Redressal Bill.

It can be a big blow to the Congress party if the President does not give an approval for the ordinance route.

Meanwhile, questions are also being raised over the hurry and urgency to bring in the ordinance as some parties want amendments in the Bills.

The Congress subterfuge is so clumsy that even a blind man would see through it.

And you cannot call the President blind although he has always turned a blind eye to the Congress corruption throughout his life.