New Delhi:
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is speaking on the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Here are the highlights of what he said:
Here are the highlights of what he said:
- GST was a proposal that the Congress had agreed to earlier.
- Now they ae opposing it only because they are in the opposition.
- GST would have created a common market across the country. It would have enabled the easy movement of goods and contributed to GDP growth.
- Their aim was to delay GST. We will not tell you our strategy, but we are determined it happens by April 1.
- It is unfortunate that the supreme leader of a mainstream party would enter the well of the House.
- Congress Party's real intent was to not let the economy grow; they used "lung power" to try and halt progress.
- India stands educated about both the Congress Party and the family that controls it.
- These are disruptions without a cuase.
- You cannot help disruptions without a cause.
- They represent about 50 seats. 44 from the Congress and the Left 9.
- None of the others... they were not the protagonists of the disruptions.
- A certain level of maturity is required. In this case, the more senior he (Rahul Gandhi) becomes, the more immature he becomes.
- When seniority is thrust on you, a certain level of maturity is required. In this case, the more he (Rahul Gandhi) grows, the more immature he gets.
- The problem was never in the Lok Sabha. We could have done more.
- There are apologists who say it is up to the government to wave a magic wand and run Parliament.
- This ignores the numerical realities.
- The politics of obstructionism is primarily from the Rajya Sabha.
- After a token protest on the issue, most other non-Congress parties expressed the desire that the House must run.
- The composition of the Rajya Sabha keeps changing from time to time, they should remember that.
- In the last few days, it was the Congress and the Congress only that was coming to the well.
- I gave the example of 1975. When the family loses, the Congressmen take it personally.
- The people who read from a written script are often repetitive.
- The numbers in the Rajya Sabha, even for a Constitutional amendment, was loaded against the Congress.
- Therefore, they prevented a debate by not allowing the House to come to order.
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