Pressure is building on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to reveal details of corruption involving Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a party meeting, press conference or an alternative forum as the last day of India’s winter session is likely to be washed out on Friday.
Days after Rahul asked lawmakers to be ready for an “earthquake” in Parliament when he speaks on demonetization, he said on Wednesday that he had explosive information on corruption involving Modi.
While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party described Rahul’s latest remark as joke of the year, leaders of Congress and other opposition parties are clueless as to what he is talking about.
BJP leaders say Rahul is afraid of divulging it outside Parliament as it may have legal consequences if proved wrong whereas he gets full immunity if the disclosure is made inside the House. But he is unlikely to divulge the information in Parliament as its winter session ends on Friday.
Congress and other Opposition parties fear the credibility of the grand old party will be further eroded if Rahul keeps talking without proving anything against Modi.
Amid Thursday’s bedlam, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said outside Parliament that Rahul is writing the last chapter of Congress.
“Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party should understand that with an expired script, they are writing the last chapter of Congress in free India. They should also understand that so many scams took place during their time that it would only hamper their image,” Naqvi said.
Taxpayers said they were hurt over the money spent on wasted parliament time.
“Running Parliament is a costly business. Each minute costs some Rs 250,000 rupees [US$3,700], which is taxpayers’ money. During this winter session, there were no lively debates. Instead, lawmakers wasted time by shouting at each other and disrupting House proceedings. Is this democracy,” E. Bhargavi, a high school teacher from Irinjalakuda, told Asia Times on the phone.
“No wonder veteran BJP leader LK Advani felt like resigning today over the deadlock in Parliament.”
Advani was so upset by the pandemonium in Parliament that he sat alone for a while after others left during adjournment.
When the session resumed, he requested that all party leaders hold a meeting with the House speaker for the smooth functioning of Parliament.
He condemned the battle of egos among party leaders saying that, while each of them may claim victory, Parliament is the ultimate loser.
Demonetization has crushed all Indians,it is a famine situation now.To improve situation it is important for BJP & Congress all parties to invite international team & visit all districts 600 in total.As you see demonetization even house help not having money & millions being hoarded by heartless people it makes things sick.
Advani is known for his inability to make up his mind!
And Rahul Gandhi is known for the Foot-In-The-Mouth disease…
Kejriwal is known to be on oral laxative….
Mamta Benerji is known to have permanent hotflashes…
chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi has said there is perhaps a ‘deal’ between Modi and Rahul; otherwise, why did Rahul fall on the last day of the Parliament’s Winter Session? His claim that he went on that day to the PM for meeting on farmers’ issues in UP appears unconvincing. A negligible issue in view of the tremedous excitment he provoked with his charge against the PM! Or is Rahul attempting a diverstionary move to help Modi to escape from the tight situation he faces on the demonetisation issue? Intriguing indeed!
Do you really believe Sir, that PM Mr. Modi is corruptible? The man’s mother in her 90s still lives in the same single room 150 Sq. feet house that she has lived past many decades, his brothers are still living in the same lower middle class houses that they lived before Mr. Modi became the CM of Gujarat state, and then the PM of India.
Compare that to Mayawati of BSP who lives in a 30 million US$ house, who just 30 years back lived in a single room rental home before she joined politics. Lalu Prasad Yadav who was a peon in Govt office and now is worth 100s of millions of US$. SP leaders and their relatives Congress bigwigs who were poor foot soldiers of the party and now live life in palatial houses like Kings…and the mother son duo of Gandhis have Billions of US$ in foreign accounts. Take any politician baring Mr. Nitish Kumar, almost all from non-BJP parties have earned money via corruption, including AAP. I am sure there are corrupt people in BJP too like Bangaruppa etc. but by and large they are the cleanest party in India, and all of its top leaders are beyond suspicion…as for PM Mr. Modi, if you remember, his die hard detractors who wrote to President Obama in 2013 to not grant him visa, also stated in their letter, that the CM Mr. Modi was incorruptible.
Rahul Gandhi is a moron, who does not know jack…if he really had anything to solidly implicate Mr. Modi, the Congress would have gone in for the kill…but alas the duffer is just a loud mouth who is trying to imitate another joker wolf in sheep’s clothing…the Delhi CM Kejriwal…and at times seems to be auditioning for a Comedy show.
Independence of Indian sub-continent in 1947 has proved to be fake and a total failure.
People of the continent were not ready.
Leaders of the sub-continent were unimaginative, brain-dead and clueless.
Thats why there is such a mess now.
People don’t understand the value of independence. Only bloodshed brings it home.
British escaped without any loss of blood. There would have been no Pakistan if British blood was shed.
Pakistani Muslim are smart. Infact very smart. They are very well established in England.
In not too distant future, UK will be a Muslim country.
English ruled India for 200 years. Pakistan will rule UK for 1,000 years. Thats the way to go, Pakistan!
Alaha Ho Akbar!
Falcon Dave
Rahual, a duffer!
I think so too.
Why would some one join politics if there were no money in it?
Rahul has no skillset.
He is dumb and duffer!
Hi, but it is India.
“When city is dark and fool the king, every thing goes for every thing!”
Think about it.