Tainted Congress Mla

Cabinet formation in Punjab ran into a new challenge Sunday - hours before the 4.30 pm oath ceremony - after six MLAs wrote to state Congress chief Navjot Sidhu to protest the "proposed inclusion of tainted Rana Gurjeet Singh" in the new government.

President Pranab Mukherjee faces a tough decision on an ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from disqualification, pushed by the government in questionable haste despite protests not only from the opposition but within the ruling Congress.

That only a fine line divides our nation's lawmakers from its lawbreakers comes as no news. On Monday, however, even that line was blurred and dissolved, as representatives from the two sides cast aside the sham of pretence and came together to hobnob, in full public glare and under the arc lights.

Cabinet formation in Punjab ran into a new challenge Sunday - hours before the 4.30 pm oath ceremony - after six MLAs wrote to state Congress chief Navjot Sidhu to protest the "proposed inclusion of tainted Rana Gurjeet Singh" in the new government.

President Pranab Mukherjee faces a tough decision on an ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from disqualification, pushed by the government in questionable haste despite protests not only from the opposition but within the ruling Congress.

That only a fine line divides our nation's lawmakers from its lawbreakers comes as no news. On Monday, however, even that line was blurred and dissolved, as representatives from the two sides cast aside the sham of pretence and came together to hobnob, in full public glare and under the arc lights.