Union Cabinet rejects the ordinance route for anti-corruption bills

  • 5 years ago
The Union Cabinet rejected the ordinance route for anti-corruption bills pushed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi while clearing reservation for the Jat community and approving changes to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill in a special meeting today.

Though the Cabinet did not formally take up the anti-corruption ordinances, sources said Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Law Minister Kapil Sibal raised the issue and said the bills require more deliberations in Parliament. Yesterday, the two ministers had called on President Pranab Mukherjee who has been reluctant to sign the legislations days before the announcement of Lok Sabha elections, due by May.


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