Addressing Congress MPs at Parliament, Sonia Gandhi also attacked PM Modi's government
New Delhi:
Urging Congress lawmakers to be "active and aggressive" in the Parliament, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi told them today, "we may be lacking in numbers but we will make up for it with our work," a reference to the pint-size 44 lawmakers that her party holds.
Mrs Gandhi, 69, did not in her address to her MPs at Parliament this morning comment on support for the national Goods and Services Tax or GST, a landmark tax reform. The government has given pride of place on its agenda for this monsoon session of Parliament to clearing the bill, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been leading negotiations with top representatives of the Congress, who have so far been non-committal in whether they will support the legislation, which could add 2 percentage points to economic growth, according to the government.
Twin Supreme Court verdicts, which allowed Congress governments to be restored first in Uttarakhand and then in Arunachal Pradesh, and which said the Centre had wrongly placed both states under direct or President's Rule were highlighted by Mrs Gandhi, who said Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has no compunction in trampling upon" the Constitution.
His government, Mrs Gandhi said, is "anchored in slick marketing events, in glib marketing slogans...in embellishment and exaggeration."
Full text of Sonia Gandhi's speech:
Mrs Gandhi, 69, did not in her address to her MPs at Parliament this morning comment on support for the national Goods and Services Tax or GST, a landmark tax reform. The government has given pride of place on its agenda for this monsoon session of Parliament to clearing the bill, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been leading negotiations with top representatives of the Congress, who have so far been non-committal in whether they will support the legislation, which could add 2 percentage points to economic growth, according to the government.
Twin Supreme Court verdicts, which allowed Congress governments to be restored first in Uttarakhand and then in Arunachal Pradesh, and which said the Centre had wrongly placed both states under direct or President's Rule were highlighted by Mrs Gandhi, who said Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has no compunction in trampling upon" the Constitution.
His government, Mrs Gandhi said, is "anchored in slick marketing events, in glib marketing slogans...in embellishment and exaggeration."
Full text of Sonia Gandhi's speech:
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