New Delhi, March 5 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed the Supreme Court verdict that legislators and lawmakers taking bribes to vote or make a speech in Parliament are not immune from prosecution.
Describing the top court's ruling as "great", Modi said: "SWAGATAM! A great judgment by the Hon'ble Supreme Court which will ensure clean politics and deepen people's faith in the system."
The Congress said that it was desirable to set right the law and should have been done earlier.
"The judgment was overdue and is rightly decided. I think it's a salutary, desirable, welcome judgment. It is something which sets right the law and it should've been done earlier," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said in a video message. P10
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