Cong calls BJP ‘stuck record’

Dec 27, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

The Congress on Sunday sharply reacted to the BJP’s demand seeking resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the 2G spectrum scam saying the Opposition party was “sounding like stuck record which is devoid of any substance”.
Dismissing the BJP’s demand for the PM’s resignation, Congress spoke-sman Manish Tewari reiterated the allegations that the BJP leaders had links with lobbyist and 2G scam accused Niira Radia. The Congress leader alleged that former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s foster son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya was the ominous shadow on the functioning of the “Vajpayee PMO”.
“The BJP can not whitewash its links with Niira Radia as evident by the extensive conversations with Ranjan Bhattacharya who was the ominous shadow on the functioning of the Vajpayee PMO,” Mr Tewari said.
“I would like to ask the BJP who was the civil aviation minister who almost granted the commercial airline licence to a Niira Radia promoted company which had paid up capital of only `1 lakh,” he added. Mr Tewari said: “The Congress and the UPA government has acted even when there was perception of corruption, while BJP has always walked the extra mile to patronise the corrupt.”

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