The President has already met Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Kamal Nath and Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal to seek clarifications about the Ordinance.
An indication about the likely fate of the Ordinance was available when Nath said that Gandhi expressed the view of many many people in the party, obviously suggesting that the government should have a “re-look” into it. His deputy in the ministry Rajiv Shukla had also insisted that the party's job is to give direction to the government.
“In the last six decades, there have been a number of occasions, when party has got the government's stand changed. Party's job is to give direction to the government,” Shukla said.
Cabinet to decide on MPs, MLAs ordinance on Oct 2
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is meeting on October 2 to take a call on possible withdrawal of the controversial Ordinance on convicted lawmakers, whose fate appears to have already been sealed after Rahul Gandhi's
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