BJP to take corruption fight to villages

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The BJP national executive meeting, which concluded here on Sunday, resolved to intensify fight against corruption and price rise emerging as the twin challenges for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Visualising the BJP-led Opposition NDA’s prospects of wresting power from the Congress-led UPA 2, the BJP sharpened its attack at the first family of the Congress and said, “The family was faced with the moment of reckoning and truth had the habit of coming out at inconvenient time.”
Briefing on the details of the two-day national executive, which adopted a political resolution, Mr Prasad said, “Top party leaders, including Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley, during their interventions in the discussion on political resolution, directly hinted at the complicity of the Congress first family in Bofors kickbacks case. Italian fugitive businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi had ‘clear and enviable access’ in the Prime Minister’s residence.”
Asked why the BJP was fighting shy of naming Ms Gandhi, if they were not naming her in the resolution, Mr Prasad retorted that the blame had been laid naming the “Congress’ first family” and Mrs Gandhi is certainly part of this household and “she holds the key of the UPA”.
The five-page resolution described the 2G spectrum scandal as ‘’the largest known loot of the exchequer’’ and the Prime Minister’s “do-nothing approach” had only helped the matter to go out of control. By remaining a mute spectator, Dr Singh had only undermined his office and allowed the nation to be looted in one go, the party regretted.
Party veteran L.K. Advani in his concluding remarks likened the current situation to that of pre-Emergency days that led to the dethroning of the Indira Gandhi government in 1977 polls. He described 2010 as the year of “stinking scams” and said the Bihar election results had shown that the voters responded to the concerns of security, law and order and corruption.
The more the Congress feels insecure, the more its leaders would stoke the possibilities of mid-term polls and they had lot of skeletons to hide, he said. They always indulge in such scaremongering whenever they feel embarrassed, the octogenarian leader pointed out.
The party also assured the Northeast that they would work for highlighting the backwardness and development of this neglected region to figure as part of the national agenda. Mr Advani during his address reminded how the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had bid goodbye to Arunachal Pradesh then known as North-eastern Frontier Provincial Areas (NEPA) in 1962.
The resolution dealt at length with the issues, including 2010 as year of corruption, revival of Bofors as an issue, 2G spectrum allocation, CWG scandal, Adarsh Housing Society scam depriving the survivors of Kargil conflict, series of corruption scandals in Congress-ruled Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and violation of constitutional institutions.
The party also vowed to take the “clean India of corruption” campaign to the villages.
Immediately after the executive, the leaders addressed a NDA rally against corruption and demanded bringing back of money stashed in the tax havens like Switzerland.