New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's blunt denouncement of the Ordinance on lawmakers was today rubbished by the Opposition with the BJP calling it a “desperate and belated” damage control exercise and saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should quit if he had any self-respect.
As the Congress Vice President's dramatic public attack on the government over the Ordinance raised the political temperature, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said it is a “belated realisation of nonsense” and that those responsible in the government for the Ordinance should resign.
Trinamool Congress' Saugata Roy said Rahul's attack is an 'orchestrated' move and demonstrated confusion within the Congress while CPI's Gurudas Das Gupta said it was “most belated.” CPI-M's Brinda Karat wondered why Rahul was reacting after so many days when the Ordinance is now before President Pranab Mukherjee.
The Ordinance circumvents a Supreme Court order that automatically disqualifed convicted lawmakers.
