A tweet from Mr Gandhi this morning read: “Madam Chief Minister, with all humility we are in the 21’st century. It’s 2017, not 1817.”
NEW DELHI: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today took a swipe at Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over a controversial ordinance, pointing out that the year was “2017, not 1817”.
“Madam Chief Minister, with all humility we are in the 21st century. It’s 2017, not 1817,” Gandhi tweeted.
The controversial Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 is expected to come up for the state government’s approval on Monday. The Congress has criticised the BJP government in the state for passing the ordinance.
The Vasundhara Raje government on Friday had passed an ordinance which seeks to protect both serving and former judges, magistrates and public servants in Rajasthan from being investigated for on-duty action without its prior sanction.
The Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, promulgated on September 7, also seeks to bar the media from reporting on accusations till the sanction to proceed with the probe is obtained.
The ordinance amends the Criminal Code of Procedure, 1973 and also seeks curbs on publishing and printing, publicising, in any case, the name, address, photograph, family details of the public servants.
“No magistrate shall order an investigation nor will any investigation be conducted against a person, who is or was a judge or a magistrate or a public servant,” reads the ordinance which provides 180 days immunity to the officers.
“Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje wants to institutionalise corruption that has been a hallmark of her regime for four years,” said Sachin Pilot, the president of Rajasthan Congress, on Saturday.
