NDA on a 'crusade' to expose government corruption: Advani
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There seems no solution in sight to the 2G stalemate in Parliament with the Opposition hardening its position on Thursday, questioning whether the government had the will to tackle the problem of corruption in the first place.
BJP leader L K Advani said the UPA government was "indifferent" to corruption. He claimed even if the allegation was likely to reach the "high levels of political office... the government was absolutely adamant" on not ordering a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the spectrum scam.
As Parliament remained deadlocked for the 15th working day, the NDA declared there was no going back on the issue of a JPC probe.
It, however, indicated that it has no plans to bring a no-confidence motion against the government on the issue.
"2G scam is a multi-dimensional scam, undermining democracy itself... Business houses talking of composition of the government... in view of this nature... for a thorough probe and to bring all guilty to book, nothing short of a JPC can do justice to the task," L K Advani said.
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Addressing a press conference along with leaders of Opposition Sushma Swaraj (Lok Sabha) and Arun Jaitley (Rajya Sabha) as also leaders of Shiv Sena and Akali Dal, he said the government has not been able to convince anyone in the Opposition why a JPC was not needed.
Accusing the government of provoking it to bring a no-confidence motion when only a year has passed since the Lok Sabha polls, he suggested that such a course of action was not planned, noting that "every MP wants to serve the full term".
Besides, he said, he was for a fixed term for legislatures in the country and have also met the Prime Minister and Leader of the Lok Sabha in this regard.
"The government cannot seriously expect the Opposition to accept the CBI and the CVC are the appropriate institutions which are capable of an honest investigation into the monumental 2G spectrum allocation scam", he said.
Advani said the NDA has decided to launch a "crusade" to mobilise public opinion against corruption. He appealed to other Opposition parties which have supported the demand for a JPC to join the endeavour.
"Why is the government running scared of a Joint Parliamentary Committee? The committee will be headed by a government nominee," Advani asked and told the Congress-led coalition that the responsibility for the parliamentary stalemate rests squarely on its shoulders.
Alleging that the autonomy and independence of the CBI has been "seriously compromised", he said the investigations by the agency "no longer inspire confidence".
"It has become a convenient instrument in the hands of the Government either to whitewash certain investigations or to harass political opponents", the BJP veteran said.
Noting that the Central Vigilance Commission is the internal vigilance authority of the Government, he said "the appointment of its chief has completely demolished the credibility of the CVC as an institution".
"A person chargesheeted in a corruption case, who attempted to deny the CVC and CAG its authority to question the impropriety in the 2G spectrum allotment, was appointed as its head," he alleged.
He said that the Opposition was no longer interested in merely talking out the issue and it wants action. "We had to resort to an extraordinary step of a parliamentary stalemate when scam after scam were being pushed under the carpet by the Government."
Replying to a number of queries concerning corruption in the BJP-ruled Karnataka and the allegations against Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, he merely said: "We are dealing with it and are confident that we will deal with it... There is no comparison."
"What can we do when we do not have so many corrupt people", he remarked when asked to react to Congress President Sonia Gandhi's poser that when her party was taking action in regard to corruption why the BJP was silent on the Karnataka CM.
Meanwhile, MPs from non-NDA Opposition parties, including the Left, would meet on Monday to strengthen their demand for a JPC probe.
In a bid to intensify pressure on the government, they would also hold an hour-long sit-in inside the Parliament precincts on Tuesday.
This was decided at a meeting of the leaders of CPI(M), CPI, RSP, Forward Bloc, TDP, AIADMK, JD(S), MDMK, BJD, AGP and RLD in Parliament this afternoon.
"Leaders of 11 parties today decided to hold a general body meeting of all their MPs from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha on Monday. They are expected to adopt a resolution that the government, by not accepting our JPC demand, is squarely responsible for the logjam in Parliament. As the two Houses are not functioning, we have been deprived of the opportunity to raise burning issues affecting the people like price rise and unemployment," CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharia told PTI.
He said the MPs would also hold a protest sit-in near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi inside the Parliament premises.
Eighty MPs of these parties had last week marched to Rashtrapati Bhavan from the Parliament House and submitted a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil urging her to "advise" the government to accept the Opposition's demand for a JPC probe.
Terming the 2G spectrum scam as the "biggest corruption after Independence", these parties said that JPC was required not only to find out who was behind it and punish them but also to probe how the system was subjected to "massive manipulation".
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury had then said that it would have required only Rs 1.10 lakh crore to give the entire population 35 kg rice at the rate of Rs 3 a kg. "The money could have been used to eliminate hunger from the country", he had said.
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