If the government was not ready to accept amendments, they should have spoken to us about it
They could have approached the President in this regard
Yesterday's session shows the government wants to dump the bill, don't want to bring a strong Lokpal Bill
Govt has lost right to rule
They ran away from voting in Rajya Sabha
PM, Finance Minister had intervened in Lok Sabha, yesterday Narayanasamy got up and spoke
Dec 30, 2011 15:13 (IST)
Arun Jaitley:
Government had promised to pass the Lokpal Bill
BJP wanted amendments to make Bill stronger
Our declared strategy was that we will pass Lokpal, not the weak one by the govt but the one with changes
This govt knows only how to manipulate, manage and fix
The PM and Finance Minister were in the House and yet the government ran away from a vote
They took help of a supporting party to create disturbance in the House
The govt creates disturbance in order to bail themselves out
At the stroke of midnight hour, Panditji had said India will wake up to freedom. Yesterday, when the people were sleeping, at the stroke of midnight hour, the biggest fraud was taking place. If that was freedom at midnight, yesterday it was flee-dom at midnight.
Balance of coalition is unstable
A govt which runs away from vote should not be allowed to rule anymore