JPC demand to divert attention from progress: Congress

After the Opposition rejected Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s offer of holding a special session of Parliament to gauge support for JPC demand, the Congress took an aggressive stand and said the Opposition was raking up the JPC vs Public Accounts Committee debate for political reasons.

“The finance minister’s offer does not mean that a decision for a special session has been taken. The spirit of what the finance minister said was that the way Opposition is ducking the issue shows that they are interested only in the politics of it,” Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said.

The party, on Thursday, floated another conspiracy theory and linked the JPC debate to development. “The way they are trying to hide from a discussion makes us suspect their intention. Maybe they are trying to convert a three-month probe into a three-year one. I feel this is to divert attention from the country’s development and the success of UPA’s flagship programmes,” said Dwivedi.