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Rahul Gandhi denounces controversial ordinance protecting convicted MPs, MLAs

New Delhi:  In a major embarrassment to the UPA government, Rahul Gandhi today denounced the controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as “complete nonsense” and said what “our government has

“It is time to stop this nonsense, political parties, mine and all others....If you want to fight corruption in the country whether it is Congress Party or BJP, we cannot continue making these small compromises. Because if we make these small compromises, then we compromise everywhere.”

At this point, Rahul got up from his seat to leave the venue but when journalists persisted, he resumed his seat as a barrage of questions flowed.
 
“I am interested in what the Congress party is doing and what our government is doing. That is why what our government has done as far as this ordinance is concerned is wrong,” he said and left the venue.