The Congress will move court if the Centre passes an ordinance to negate the State budget of Uttarakhand that was passed on March 18 — the day when nine Congress legislators turned rebels and challenged the authority of the Harish Rawat government along with their BJP counterparts. “I want to ask the Prime Minister on what basis and under what laws have you declared through an ordinance that the Budget has not been passed in the Assembly. Is there any decision of the court?” said senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal at a press conference here.
For the Congress, the passage of the annual Budget in the Assembly on March 18 is an important piece of evidence that the Harish Rawat government is in a majority. But the Centre has been rejecting the claim saying since the Finance Bill faced a joint resistance from 27 BJP legislators and nine rebel Congress leaders, Mr. Rawat and his Cabinet ceased to be in power.
