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| PM, Sonia should own moral responsibility: BJP | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 9: Bharatiya Janta Party has demanded that the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must apologize to the nation for violating the fundamental constitutional rights of the citizens to peacefully protest against the policies and actions of the Government.
They must also own responsibility and express regret for use of brutal police force to suppress the agitation by Baba Ramdev and his followers by letting loose a reign of terror and atrocities.
This was stated by BJP national secretary Vijay Goel in a press conference held here today.
He said that Congress-UPA government today resembles a rudderless ship. There is no sense of direction and the Captain does not seem to have the steering wheel in his hands. The Prime Minister, though vested with the responsibility to command the ship, does not have the authority of the Captain.
The Gandhi family with overweening powers to set the direction and pace of the ship demits all accountability the moment the ship runs into rough weather or choppy waters. It seems that the UPA dispensation has set-up the Prime Minister as a camouflage to facilitate the behind-the-scene political manoeuvring by the real powers-that-matter.
It further demanded that all ministers in the UPA government should give an undertaking that they don’t have black money outside the country and they don’t operate any bank account abroad.
“They (PM and UPA chairperson) must also own responsibility and express regret for use of brutal police force to suppress the agitation by Baba Ramdev and his followers by letting loose a reign of terror and atrocities,” BJP general secretary Vijay Goel told reporters here.
Goel also equated the Congress-led UPA government with a “rudderless ship” and remarked, “There is no sense of direction and the Captain (PM) does not seem to have the steering wheel in his hands. The Prime Minister, though vested with the responsibility to command the ship, does not have the authority of the Captain.”
“The Gandhi family with overweening powers to set the direction and pace of the ship demits all accountability the moment the ship runs into rough weather or choppy waters,” he said, adding “Congress Party clearly feels that the UPA government headed by Manmohan Singh has become a liability and is distancing itself from the actions of the Government.”
The BJP leader said, “On many issues, Congress party and government appear to be pulling from different directions and the Ministers more often act at the prompting of the Congress Party and its President and less on the instructions of the Prime Minister.”
He compared the police action on Ramdev with Jalianwala Bagh incident, alleging “The use of repressive measures in Ramlila Maidan was reminiscent of Jalianwala Bagh massacre as the action was unwarranted and disproportionately brutal.”
“It is ironical that the UPA government remained unaffected when rank separatists and anti-national elements held a seminar close to the seat of power openly demanding sedition and dismemberment of India. This regime is willing to allow full freedom to separatists and anti-national forces but suppresses spiritual leaders and peaceful patriotic citizens demanding probity and transparency in public life and strong laws to tackle the menace of corruption and black money,” he charged.
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