In White Paper, Government's Jab At Rahul Gandhi Over "Tearing Up" Ordinance
NDTV
The White Paper claims that there was a crisis of leadership in the UPA government.
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised his predecessor Manmohan Singh in Parliament, his government mounted an all-out attack on the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi, claiming in a comparative White Paper that the economy had lost its way under the UPA and that there was a crisis of leadership in the coalition government.
Launching a volley against Rahul Gandhi, the government's White Paper pointed to 2013, when the Congress leader had "torn up" his own government's proposed ordinance overturning a Supreme Court judgment. The court had ruled that MPs and MLAs convicted with a minimum two-year sentence would be immediately disqualified and would not get three months to appeal, like they did until then.
Mr Gandhi had termed the ordinance "complete nonsense" and his act was seen as a major embarrassment for then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom the BJP had attacked as a "puppet" of the Gandhi family ever since he assumed office in 2004.
