Party's chief whip in Rajya Sabha Derek O'Brien contended that the Centre's decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in multi- brand retail is "not just a change in the norms amenable to placid parliamentary scrutiny but also to vigorous parliamentary sanction".
Referring to the UPA's argument that FDI in multi-brand retail is purely an executive one, he said in his blog posting that the "government, devious to the very end, is seeking to hoodwink Parliament, deprive it of its due right and is attempting to explain away the changes in FDI rules as merely an enabling framework".
Describing the argument as "semantic jugglery", he said "enabling framework or no enabling framework, we are discussing legislation here