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| Prove Your 'Integrity' by Disrupting Parliament, Says Congress to Others
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| INDIA
, 3-July-2015
7:0:59 AM |
| The Congress will not allow Parliament to function when it meets later this month unless top BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje are removed from office for the favours extended to disgraced cricket mogul Lalit Modi, said Ghulam Nabi Azad today. The strategy has not found favour so far with other Opposition parties. "They should prove they are not compromising with their principles by siding with the ruling party," Mr Azad said.
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The government has said it will not dismiss Mrs Swaraj as Foreign Minister or Ms Raje as Rajasthan Chief Minister, insisting that neither is guilty of moral or legal transgressions. But its stand-off with the Congress over their removal endangers the Prime Minister's reform agenda - the key proposals it wants Parliament to clear soon include the landmark Goods and Sales Tax reform (GST) and a new law for the acquisition of farm land for industry and infrastructure.
"The party is steadfast in its demand for the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje," said Mr Azad to NDTV about the BJP leaders who furthered Mr Modi's case with UK immigration officials while he avoided returning home to face corruption charges.
He also refuted recent media reports that if the government takes action against the leaders, the Congress will facilitate the passing of the GST reform and the Land Acquisition Bill, which the Congress has denounced as "anti-farmer".
The Congress' support is necessary for the government to push through legislation in the Upper House or the Rajya Sabha, where it is in a minority. With the Congress withholding its cooperation, both the GST proposal -
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