Shekhar Gupta delivers a scathing rebuke to the political class criticizing the act of issuing ordinance's to bypass the law for gaining political advantage and at times legalizing their own crimes.

The immediate provocation for this is the truly shocking decision by the Congress high command to set up a party panel to look into the prospects of issuing an ordinance amending the law whereby all — or at least most of the building violations and land-grab cases in the capital will be “legalized.”

He writes further:

The recourse to amending the law or writing fresh legislation is a tempting escape for politicians from constitutional checks and balances. It becomes even more tempting when there is political consensus, howsoever cynical, to do so.

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