Accusing the Congress and its “first family” of levelling “false and baseless” allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Gujarat land deal issue to cover up its own corruption and frau
Accusing the Congress and its “first family” of levelling “false and baseless” allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Gujarat land deal issue to cover up its own corruption and fraud, the BJP on Saturday said the Opposition party has no moral right to talk of graft as its “top leaders are embroiled in corruption.”
Calling the Congress a “history-sheeter” in levelling false allegations, the ruling party alleged that it is trying to again stall Parliament during the upcoming Budget session. Asserting that land allotments made in Gujarat during Mr Modi’s chief ministership were done as per law and through a transparent three-tier evaluation process, BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said, “the anti-poor and anti-development Congress is unable to digest the progress made by the NDA government led by Mr Modi and is thus trying to tarnish its image and stall the nation’s development.”
He added that Congress is creating such conditions ahead of the Budget session of Parliament to stall it and stop the development process. He said it reflects the “frustration” of the Congress leadership after having failed to stop Mr Modi and his government from doing “good work despite the negativity and hurdles created by the opposition.”
“The Congress’ first family as well many top party leaders are embroiled in corruption and fraud cases of thousands of crores of rupees and are out on bail and may go to jail anytime. These include Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, facing charges...Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy and Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh are also embroiled in corruption cases, besides a number of its other leaders. They have no moral right to talk on corruption. Their only aim is to stall nation’s development through negative politics,” Mr Sharma said.
He said despite hurdles and negativity, the Prime Minister is “popular” as 58 per cent of the population still like him as per an independent survey.
