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Ordinance: Prez stickler for norms

Author: TNN
Publication: The Times of India
Date: March 10, 2014

Foreign minister Salman Khurshid said on Sunday that the government had sought the advice of the President over ordinances for key anti-corruption bills.
   
“Should you not have a communication with the President? The President is after all the head of the country, he is like a father figure for the country. If you want something done, why should you not go and take his advice,” the minister told a TV channel.
   
“Finally, it has to be the President’s perception... What you consider to be extremely urgent and important and requiring immediate action, if hethinks that is not so, we must bow to his wishes,” he added.
   
The Cabinet last week failed to bring five key anticorruption bills despite Rahul’s pressure, courting embarrassment because of the publicity the issue had got over the days. The fear that the President may not sign the ordinances kept the Cabinet from passing them.
   
Several rounds of consultation with Mukherjee failed to yield results, conveying that the veteran Congressman was a stickler for parliamentary propriety. The failure to enact anti-graft laws has also undercut a major campaign talking point brought up by Rahul.
   

Khurshid denied that Rahul’s push for the ordinances, which forced the Cabinet to try so hard, showed the Congress vice-president as driving the government. “He (Rahul) does certainly indicate whatthe party’s policy preferences are. If you give me a good suggestion and I accept it, it doesn’t mean I am subjecting the Cabinet decision to yours,” he said.
 
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