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| Campaign against corruption, BJP-style | | Charity Begins At Home | | EARLY TIMES Report
JAMMU, Aug 8: BJP national general secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda yesterday said that the Congress-led UPA Government "has become a den of corruption" and that the BJP "has lunched a month-long awareness campaign against corruption, black money and price rise." Nadda made these statements in Jammu while addressing a public meting.
Nobody would disagree with Nadda when he says that the Congress is a corrupt party and that the Congress-led UPA Government the most corrupt government India has ever seen. Both the Congress and the present dispensation in New Delhi are indeed most corrupt; they have undoubtedly shamed India and blacken the face of the country beyond recognition. That's the reason the Congress leadership and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his colleagues are running for a cover and the parliament has not been able to function smoothly.
However, when Nadda, like other BJP leaders, says that the BJP has launched a 30-day-long campaign against corruption nobody is prepared is prepared to buy their arguments. They only ridicule and taunt them and dismiss them with contempt. That Nadda chose Jammu to speak against the evil of corruption was all the more amusing and shocking. Amusing and shocking because the involvement of most of the BJP legislators belonging to Jammu province is neck deep. How could a party that has produced most corrupt politicians in Jammu think in terms of opposing what it terms as the most corrupt party? The BJP has no moral right to take up the issue of corruption. The general opinion in the country is that the "BJP is the B-team of the Congress party."
Nadda should have thought hundred times before speaking on the issue of corruption in Jammu. It was a must because 7 out of 11 BJP MLAs had not only indulged in corruption of extreme form but had also subverted the very mandate only in April this year. The people of Jammu had not returned them to the assembly to flirt with the "anti-Jammu" NC and Congress and make common cause with these two parties during the legislative council elections to promote their selfish intentions or to grind their personal axes. Nor had they returned 11 legislators to hobnob with those seeking greater autonomy for the state. The people of Jammu had elected them to fight against the NC and the Congress and ensure that the state government didn't perpetrate injustices on them. And, what the BJP legislators did during the legislative council elections was something unprecedented in the electoral and political history of Jammu and Kashmir.
That the BJP high command has not taken any definite action against the erring BJP MLAs till date further suggest that it says one thing in public and does exactly the opposite behind the scene. There are reports that the "BJP high command wants to go slow so that the dust is settled down and the corrupt BJP MLAs are honourably rehabilitated." And, what about those against whom the party considered innocent? There are allegations that "some of them have also hobnobbed with the NC in order to further their personal agendas." A number of stories appeared in the recent past indicating the "benefits at least two BJP MLAs" got from the ruling coalition. There are even charges that one of the BJP MLAs, who is in the good books of the BJP high command, had voted for Farooq Abdullah of NC during the 2009 Rajya Sabha elections.
"Nadda has only made a mockery of himself and his party by speaking against the menace of corruption," say the BJP-watchers. It would be better if the BJP first cleanse its own house and then throws stones on the Congress' houses. |
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