Assault on India's Democracy by UPA

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<b>Govt’s ham-handedness gives Oppn a stick</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sources said that neither <b>Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee nor Rajya Sabha Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat had been “in the loop” about the government’s game-plan</b>
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<b>The Government’s overnight decision—without consulting the Opposition or its own allies or even the presiding officers of Parliament—only underlined the ham-handed handling of the whole issue, triggered by needless haste and unnecessary panic, government sources privately admit.</b>
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<b>What makes the handling of the issue particularly clumsy is that the Government could easily have chosen much less contentious ways to achieve the same end.</b>
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Apart from the constituents of the NDA, Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam who have taken the lead in attacking the Congress, even UPA allies—JD(S), CPI and CPI(M) among others—publicly disapproved of the Government’s “ordinance route” today.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->