Govt set to bring ordinances on fiver anti-graft bills
February 25, 2014  19:33

The United Progressive Alliance government is set to bring ordinances on five bills related to anti-corruption and protection of rights, government sources have told PTI.  

 

Party spokesman Shashi Tharoor told mediapersons in New Delhi on February 20 that non-passage of the bills will be a "setback to the nation" and so all options will have to be examined to bring them into effect through other routes, including the ordinance route.  


Party vice president Rahul Gandhi has made a strong pitch for the passage of the anti-graft measures. Gandhi had accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of not allowing the bills to be passed by disrupting Parliament repeatedly, a charge denied by the opposition party. The anti-graft legislations have been dubbed by BJP as the Congress vice president's "agenda" in an election year.

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