In a statement that may cause further embarrassment to the BJP, its national vice-president Shanta Kumar on Sunday said he had informed the party high command about the happenings in Karnataka when he was party in-charge for the state, but his complaints were not taken seriously. In a hard-hitting comment, he also said that the BJP was fast becoming a “party of sons, daughters and relatives”.
“I knew everything what Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde has now said... I had informed the high command about it, but no action was taken,” Mr Kumar told PTI here. “I had asked the high command to relieve me from Karnataka’s charge, if action was not to be taken against Mr Yeddyurappa. The Lokayukta’s report is so much damning that the party must take action against the chief minister,” he said. He said the BJP came into existence as a party with a difference, and continued to be a much better party compared to the rest.
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Row over BJP ‘insult to Azad’
AGE CORRESPONDENT
BHOPAL
July 24: The state BJP leadership has come under attack from the Congress, which has alleged that extreme disrespect was shown to martyr Chandrashekhar Azad during the inauguration of a tribal fair at Bhabra, his birthplace in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh. State Congress president Kantilal Bhuria said that the BJP leaders were busy delivering speeches while others kept trampling Chandrashekhar Azad’s photo, which kept lying at their feet and no one bothered to lift it and place it properly. The kind of respect the martyrs get from the BJP was explicit when Sushma Swaraj was seen dancing at Rajghat, he added.