Rahul Gandhi shocks Congress

Supreme Court has been lashing at Congress led UPA government on several accounts, yet it couldn’t leave its die-hard habits. This time the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi also sharply criticized the UPA government for making amendment to the People Representation Act (PR Act), to surpass the Supreme Court’s latest ruling prohibiting the peoples’ representatives from contesting the elctions, who were jailed in criminal charges.

Rahul Gandhi said “"Now, I will tell you what is my opinion on the ordinance. It is complete nonsense, it should be torn up and thrown away. It is my personal opinion," he said.

Rahul said that the arguments given in "my organisation" is that "we need to do this because of political considerations. Everybody is doing this. The Congress does this, the BJP does this, the Samajwadi Party, the JD(U) does this."

"It is time to stop this nonsense, political parties, mine and all others....If you want to fight corruption in the country whether it is Congress Party or BJP, we cannot continue making these small compromises. Because if we make these small compromises, then we compromise everywhere."

Supreme Court defining the PR Act, has said representatives of the people can’t take cover under this act. Any representative jailed and lost his/her voting right, will automatically loose the right to contest in the elections. The PR Act can’t allow him/her to contest in the elections, merely because he/she gets a stay order from a court on his/her case. His/her right for contesting in the elections will automatically seizes, once he/she is jailed under criminal charges.

Obviously, there was hue and cry on the apex court’s order in the political circles. The government has immediately brought an amendment to surpass the court order and it was unanimously passed by the members of the Parliament few weeks ago. The bill ispresently lying with President Pranab Mukharji 

After Parliament amends the PR Act, now Rahul Gandhi found fault with it. If he really has objections for it, he would have raised it during its process, but then he remained a silent spectator and is now criticizing his own government and party. This will be of no help to anyone but creates embarrassment to his own party and government.