The BJP leadership has once again trained its guns on the Congress high command and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lambasting the UPA for giving the country the ‘grandmother’ of all scams, party president Nitin Gadkari and senior leader LK Advani said the Congress had allowed its leaders to plunder the nation and stash the loot away in foreign banks.
Launching a frontal attack, Gadkari said, “While farmers were committing suicide and youths were roaming jobless, the likes of A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi were giving shape to the Commonwealth Games and 2G scandals, devouring lakhs of crores.” Without dropping any name, he wondered “who their godfather and godmother were”.
It is evident that the BJP is taking the West Bengal election seriously. Gadkari noted how while BJP-ruled States were recording phenomenal growth, those ruled by the Congress and Left were mired in corruption. He added that this graft was the root cause of under-development.
The BJP chief again demanded to know “why the Centre is not giving the names of those who have kept lakhs of crores of black money in foreign banks.”
Speaking out against Singh’s inherent weakness in dealing with crucial affairs, Advani reiterated that he had seen several Prime Ministers but no one as weak as the present one. “I was told that the Prime Minister was hurt because I called him a weak person. He may be a good person but he is the weakest Prime Minister because he could not stop corruption taking place in front of his eyes” he added.
Advani pointed out that it was during Singh’s regime that a Prime Minister had to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court to explain his conduct.
Congratulating West Bengal party president Rahul Sinha for his “good work” in bringing the party alive, BJP MP and party in-charge of the State Chandan Mitra said, “The BJP has come to Bengal not to leave halfway. We have come to the State with our eyes set on the Writers’ Buildings.”
The leaders were speaking at a huge rally in Kolkata held at the completion of a 15-day Navjagran Yatra that started from Cooch Behar in North Bengal on January 30. Mitra recalled how thousands had welcomed the party rath in various districts during the yatra.
“While the CPI(M) has unleashed a reign of oppression and terror and rendered the State poor, by inviting the Maoists to Bengal, the Trinamool claims itself to be an alternative but is the other side of the same coin,” Mitra said.
Earlier, on the sidelines of the BJP national office bearers’ meeting, Mitra said the party would “contest from all seats in Bengal”, adding that “both the CPI(M) and Trinamool were the two sides of the same coin.”
The State was suffering from lack of growth on all sides - from health and education to industry and employment - he said, adding that Trinamool was equally corrupt and tyrannical. “The situation is such that the people have to choose between the devil and the deep sea,” said Mitra, adding that it was at this juncture that the BJP was projecting itself as a third alternative.
The BJP rally, the biggest in recent times in Bengal, was attended by a galaxy of leaders, including the Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
Linking corruption with continued price rise, former party president Rajnath Singh said, “While the Congress had repeatedly given the nation corrupt regimes, the CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress have helped it in its corrupt acts at different times.”
“The Congress has stashed away lakhs of crores in foreign banks and the Trinamool and the Left have propped it at the Centre at different times,” he noted.
Singh added that the BJP would bring all the black money back to India and “earmark between Rs 15 crore to Rs 20 crore for each village for its development.”
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Launching a frontal attack, Gadkari said, “While farmers were committing suicide and youths were roaming jobless, the likes of A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi were giving shape to the Commonwealth Games and 2G scandals, devouring lakhs of crores.” Without dropping any name, he wondered “who their godfather and godmother were”.
It is evident that the BJP is taking the West Bengal election seriously. Gadkari noted how while BJP-ruled States were recording phenomenal growth, those ruled by the Congress and Left were mired in corruption. He added that this graft was the root cause of under-development.
The BJP chief again demanded to know “why the Centre is not giving the names of those who have kept lakhs of crores of black money in foreign banks.”
Speaking out against Singh’s inherent weakness in dealing with crucial affairs, Advani reiterated that he had seen several Prime Ministers but no one as weak as the present one. “I was told that the Prime Minister was hurt because I called him a weak person. He may be a good person but he is the weakest Prime Minister because he could not stop corruption taking place in front of his eyes” he added.
Advani pointed out that it was during Singh’s regime that a Prime Minister had to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court to explain his conduct.
Congratulating West Bengal party president Rahul Sinha for his “good work” in bringing the party alive, BJP MP and party in-charge of the State Chandan Mitra said, “The BJP has come to Bengal not to leave halfway. We have come to the State with our eyes set on the Writers’ Buildings.”
The leaders were speaking at a huge rally in Kolkata held at the completion of a 15-day Navjagran Yatra that started from Cooch Behar in North Bengal on January 30. Mitra recalled how thousands had welcomed the party rath in various districts during the yatra.
“While the CPI(M) has unleashed a reign of oppression and terror and rendered the State poor, by inviting the Maoists to Bengal, the Trinamool claims itself to be an alternative but is the other side of the same coin,” Mitra said.
Earlier, on the sidelines of the BJP national office bearers’ meeting, Mitra said the party would “contest from all seats in Bengal”, adding that “both the CPI(M) and Trinamool were the two sides of the same coin.”
The State was suffering from lack of growth on all sides - from health and education to industry and employment - he said, adding that Trinamool was equally corrupt and tyrannical. “The situation is such that the people have to choose between the devil and the deep sea,” said Mitra, adding that it was at this juncture that the BJP was projecting itself as a third alternative.
The BJP rally, the biggest in recent times in Bengal, was attended by a galaxy of leaders, including the Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
Linking corruption with continued price rise, former party president Rajnath Singh said, “While the Congress had repeatedly given the nation corrupt regimes, the CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress have helped it in its corrupt acts at different times.”
“The Congress has stashed away lakhs of crores in foreign banks and the Trinamool and the Left have propped it at the Centre at different times,” he noted.
Singh added that the BJP would bring all the black money back to India and “earmark between Rs 15 crore to Rs 20 crore for each village for its development.”
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