Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday unleashed a direct attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejecting government’s offer for truce in Parliament.
Here are the highlights of what Sonia said
* We will fight against the brazen attitude of the government
* The PM has been very free with his promises yet he seems totally incapable of delivering on them.
* The champion of ‘Mann ki baat’ takes ‘Maun Vrat’ on scandals involving his colleagues.
* The Prime Minister has turned out to be a master re-packager, a skilful salesman, a sharp headline grabber and a clever news manager.
* The current session of Parliament is a relatively short one but it is already proving eventful.
* On one hand, PM never misses an opportunity to claim moral high ground on transparency, integrity and accountability, on the other, he has been conspicuous by his deafening silence on blatant transgressions by his EAM and two of his CMs.
* Today, we have to listen to sermons on parliamentary behaviour from those who advocated disruption as a legitimate tactic when we they were in the opposition.
* Yesterday’s agitators in both the Houses have suddenly become today’s champions of debate and discussion.
* BJP is the author of ‘resign now, debate later’ principle which it had used in at least five occasions during UPA rule. We are only following it
* Govt using numerical strength as a sources of arrogance rather than responsibility, trying to substitute investigation by mere discussion. This is unacceptable
* We are raising very important issue with strong evidence, but Govt is unwilling to take action in this regard