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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

After he left, Maken, who heads the Congress media department, said, “What Rahul Gandhi has said is our party policy”.
 
Rahul's dramatic and open denunciation of the ordinance comes a day after President Pranab Mukherjee called three ministers - Home, Law and Parliamentary Affairs - and raised questions over the need for an ordinance on an issue on which there was no political consensus.