President Pranab helps UPA avert major crisis

May 07, 2013 20:40

A correspondent reports from Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has saved the UPA government from a major constitutional crisis.

In his brief direction to the government, the President reportedly sorted out the confusion created by the possible advancement of the Finance Bill.

Buzz is that President Pranab had to intervene through Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and explain the possible constitutional crisis if the Finance Bill is not passed.

But political watchers point out that this was ideally the task of Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar.

Why did President Pranab ask Kumar to come to Rashtrapati Bhavan? Should not the department of legislative affairs in the law ministry have been on alert?

Or should not Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who is also a legal luminary, anticipated such a constitutional crisis?

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