President Pranab Mukherjee reminded senior Ministers of the Narendra
Modi government that the validity of an ordinance was for just six weeks
after Parliament reassembled.
Mr. Mukherjee’s comments to the Ministers when they called on him to
explain the urgency for promulgating three ordinances imply that the
government will have to get these turned into Acts of Parliament. In
order to do this, the government must get the contentious legislation
passed either through the Rajya Sabha, where it doesn’t have the
majority, or call a joint sitting of the two Houses.
The President told Ministers Arun Jaitley, D.V. Sadananda Gowda and
Nitin Gadkari at a recent meeting that it was up to the government to
ensure that the validity of the legislation extended beyond the mandated
six weeks after Parliament resumed
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