A day after Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik from Congress picked apart BJP on issues like corruption and black money during his day-long visit to the state capital, the BJP on Wednesday came out heavily and said the recent developments confirmed that the Congress-led UPA government had no intention to take any effective steps for tackling corruption or bringing back black money from abroad.
“Now it is clear that the Congress simply made empty promises on the issue of corruption and black money just to buy peace with the agitated common man. This was just a ploy and a lip service only,” said the BJP district president Ashok Pandey.
“When the discourse has progressed to a stage where the Centre has to make a firm commitment, it has backtracked. That is why the UPA government is using coercive methods to crush the peaceful protesters, defaming the opposition and speaking foul language against everybody - whether it is BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Anna Hazare or Swami Ramdev. This shows that the Congress carries ‘Emergency mindset’ even today. This is nothing but arrogance of power,” he said.
“The Congress has called peaceful protest movement of Anna Hazare and his supporters as ‘tyranny of unelected’. To confuse pressure groups like Hazare’s team as tyrannical is clear lack of understanding of basic political idioms,” said the state president of BJP Party Kisan Morcha (BJPKM) Sandeep Sharma.
“In fact, only government’s elected or otherwise can become tyrants. Nazi Germany or India in Emergency, are real examples of tyranny of the elected. Rather, the Congress supports tyranny of elected as against pressure groups,” he said.
“The Union government’s unwillingness to act tough against corruption is on display in case of Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran. He should have been sacked by now,” said Bharatiya Janata Yuwa Morcha (BJYM) district president Sanju Narayan Singh.
“Why is the Prime Minister silent on the issue or is he waiting for Supreme Court’s (SC) strictures once again? As everybody knows that it is because of the SC monitored investigation and initiatives that the sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi, former Telecom Minister A Raja and others are in jail. The Union government on the other had always refrained from taking proactive action against the corrupt people in its system,” he added.
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