06-09-2004, 08:16 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Sudhir+Jun 8 2004, 07:30 PM-->QUOTE(Sudhir @ Jun 8 2004, 07:30 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Sonia has powers to call for Govt files, says Bharadwaj
Is there a precedence from the past parallel to this or are these nitwits creating rules on the fly <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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<b>Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been appointed as the UPA Chairperson, will have the powers to call for files from any Ministry, now that she has been given the status of a Cabinet rank</b>.
In an exclusive interview to this website's newspaper, Union Law Minister H R Bharadwaj denied that Sonia Gandhi was an extra-constitutional authority. He said that this was the real purpose of conferring on her the Cabinet rank so that no one objected to her accessing the files <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
from George "vindicated" on Kargil air strikes
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Fernandes also questioned the UPA government's decision to give Sonia Gandhi access to government documents.
"According to me only that person who has taken an oath should have the right to acsess secret files. I don't know how others can be given this right. And if something like this is being done, then it is in complete violation of the Constitution.
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Is there a precedence from the past parallel to this or are these nitwits creating rules on the fly <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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<b>Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been appointed as the UPA Chairperson, will have the powers to call for files from any Ministry, now that she has been given the status of a Cabinet rank</b>.
In an exclusive interview to this website's newspaper, Union Law Minister H R Bharadwaj denied that Sonia Gandhi was an extra-constitutional authority. He said that this was the real purpose of conferring on her the Cabinet rank so that no one objected to her accessing the files <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
from George "vindicated" on Kargil air strikes
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Fernandes also questioned the UPA government's decision to give Sonia Gandhi access to government documents.
"According to me only that person who has taken an oath should have the right to acsess secret files. I don't know how others can be given this right. And if something like this is being done, then it is in complete violation of the Constitution.
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