Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said that "PM Modi's arrogance" was holding up key legislations like the GST. Anand Sharma countered Arun Jaitley's charge, which said that Sonia and Rahul Gandhi hold responsibility for the ruckus in Parliament.

Anand Sharma said, "The biggest reason behind the deadlock is PM's arrogance. He decided not to engage the opposition and has conveniently chosen to stay mum on our demand that action should be taken against the ministers involved in the Lalit Modi and Vyapam scandals."

"It is the PM's obduracy and arrogance which is responsible for the stalemate in Parliament. He can't rewrite the rule book," Sharma added.

As a strong response to Jaitley's charge that the Congress was using Sushma Swaraj as a pretext to stop the GST bill passage, Sharma said that they are not against GST. He added that the original author of reforms, including GST Bill, was Congress. Whereas, the original author of disruptions is BJP.

"The BJP has conveniently ignored its past protests. Why is the PM mum on its tainted ministers, if he wants to break the deadlock, he should be forthcoming about the action on the ministers," said Sharma.

-Sumana