Article 123 empowers the President to promulgate an ordinance when the Parliament is not in session, but he has to be certain that there are adequate circumstances to warrant urgent legislative action...Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari — put forth the government’s viewpoint and persuaded the President about the need to move swiftly...and...explain why the government was in a hurry to get the ordinance promulgated to amend the law, rather than wait for the next Parliament session.