The principal opposition Congress on Thursday lashed out at the Modi government for what he said trying to run an ‘Ordinance government’ and maintained that such a road map only reflected an erroneous trend and ‘colonial hangover’.
Participating in the debate on The Homeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, Congress floor leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury quoted even first Lok Sabha Speaker Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar and said that he had also termed the system of promulgation of Ordinance as “a wrong precedent”.
Chowdhury maintained that he had opposed the Ordinance on the The Homeopathy Central Council even earlier and today also as the Minister Shripad Yesso Naik tried to explain and justify the government decision to promulgate the Ordinance – he did not find it convincing.
“What was the hurry….heaven would not have fallen had we waited,” he said in reference to the executive decision taken by the government which somehow tends to belittle the role of the elected legislature.
Such moves go beyond ‘rationale explanation’, he said slamming the government.
It appears this (Modi government) has become “a government of the Ordinance and for the Ordinance”, Chowdhury remarked and insisted that only on extra-ordinary circumstances such executive measures could be adopted. (UNI)
