Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday launched a blistering assault on the Congress for its pro-family strategy whereas coping with the Indian Structure and said within the Rajya Sabha that the grand outdated social gathering stored amending the structure to assist household and dynasty. Sitharaman launched a scathing assault on former Congress leaders together with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi and stated that the Constitutional amendments that they introduced weren’t about strengthening democracy however defending these in energy.
“The Congress social gathering openly stored amending the Structure to assist the household and dynasty…These amendments had been to not strengthen democracy however to guard these in energy, the method was used to strengthen the household,” stated FM Sitharaman.
Talking within the Rajya Sabha on debate on the structure, Sithartaman additionally slammed Congress allies together with Lalu Prasad Yadav. Taking a veiled jibe at Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sitharaman stated, “I do know of political leaders who’ve chosen to have the kids named after MISA to recollect these black days and now they would not even thoughts having an alliance with them…” The Finance Minister was hinting at Misa Bharti, Lalu Yadav’s daughter.
irmala Sitharaman identified the Constitutional amendments introduced in to nullify a judgement that arose between Indira Gandhi vs Rajnarayan whereby the order of the Allahabad Excessive Court docket setting apart the election of Indira Gandhi was challenged.
“Through the pendency of this case within the Supreme Court docket, the Congress enacted the 39th Constitutional Modification Act in 1975 which added Article 392 (A) to the Structure which says that elections to the President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker can’t be challenged in any court docket within the nation and it may be executed solely earlier than a parliamentary committee. Think about that for an individual to avoid wasting her chair, an modification was made even earlier than the court docket judgement,” she stated.
“The judgement that got here from the Supreme Court docket within the Shah Bano case, the Congress handed the Muslim Ladies Safety of Rights on Divorce act 1986 which denied Muslim ladies their proper to alimony. Our social gathering handed the Nari Shakti Adhiniyam whereas the correct of Muslim ladies was denied by this act,” she added.
Sitharaman additionally slammed the Congress on imposing Emergency within the nation.
“On December 18, 1976, the then-president gave an accent to the 42nd Constitutional modification act. Through the Emergency when the time period of Lok Sabha was prolonged with out correct justification. Within the prolonged time period, when your entire opposition was put to jail then got here the Constitutional modification. That was a complete invalidated course of. Solely 5 members opposed the invoice within the Lok Sabha. There was nobody in Rajya Sabha to oppose it. The amendments weren’t about strengthening democracy however defending these in energy,” the Finance Minister stated.
