The party's National Executive, which started here today, is all set to come up with a resolution on corruption, which according to party sources, will highlight the alleged corruption of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government and draw up a blueprint to take up the issue both in and outside Parliament, even at the cost of stalling the coming Budget Session.
The Winter Session of the Parliament was entirely washed out without transacting any business.
The leaders attending the conclave aired serious concerns over Mr Sibal's latest stand that the CAG had arrived at an erroneous conclusion that the loss to the exchequer was Rs 1.76 lakh crore and said that, with this development, there would be no compromise at all on their demand for a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the affair.
If there was no loss to the exchequer, the Government must explain why they made DMK's A Raja resign as Communications Minister, they said. They also said Mr Sibal's argument had negated the existence of the CAG, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a top BJP leader said.
The party averred that it would not get into the trap of the Congress attempts to divert the issue of corruption and terror and the party would stick to its stand.
The verdict of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, that the Rs 41-crore commission paid to Bofors agent Win Chadha and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi was taxable, has given the BJP a big stick to hit a combative Congress with at the two-day meeting taking place in this picturesque city on the banks of the Brahmaputra.
With the Congress dumping the 2G spectrum issue, the BJP has caught on to the age-old Bofors issue which got revived by the ITAT order which directly links with the Bofors agents -- Win Chadha and Italian fugitive businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, believed to have direct connections with the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's house when the scam broke out in the mid-1980s.
Top party leaders including Chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party L K Advani, BJP President Nitin Gadkari, Leaders of Opposition Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley and Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states, have all arrived in this state, which is due to elect a new legislative assembly before May 26 this year.
The party will link its corruption resolution with the rising prices to pursuance of wrong policies and non-governance and a massive rally against corruption has been proposed to be held on Sunday.
A whopping 18 per cent rise in food commodity prices, denial of development to the masses and governance are the other issues that will be under sharp focus.
Although the party has announced its decision to go it alone in the Assam elections, the leadership has not ruled out the possibility of a tie-up with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP).
Guwahati, January 8, 2011
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