"Emergent pressing exigencies are required for bringing an ordinance. It is not a norm. It is certainly not made to be a default mode of legislation for passing key laws. But this government has brought eight ordinances in seven months since it came to power.
"Ordinance bypasses Parliament. In bypassing Parliament, you also bypass democracy," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, ruing the land acquisition bill was not a normal one and law and was brought after years of discussion and persuasion and it was "unequivocally supported" by the BJP one year ago.
"It's only shell of the Land Acquisition that we brought replacing the old 1894 law. It has now become just like the old one and has no soul or substance," Singhvi said.
Coining an acronym of "FAIL", the Congress spokesperson alleged that Modi government stands for anti-farmer, anti accountability, intolerance and divisive politics and anti- land acquisition.
He also took potshots at the BJP for demanding that Congress President Sonia Gandhi should apologise from the nation after BJP chief Amit Shah's discharge in Sohrabuddin fake encounter killing case, rejecting allegation that it "misused" CBI against its opponents during the UPA rule.