Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has launched a frontal attack on the BJP and its senior leaders saying former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani has no moral right to criticise UPA chairperson Soina Gandhi. “Whenever the BJP faces infighting, it always raise issues like Bofors,” says Mr Gehlot.
Talking to a group of mediapersons, Mr Gehlot said that the BJP leadership failed to control its own chief ministers such as Mr Yedyurappa of Karnataka and Ms Vasundhara Raje, former chief minister of Rajasthan, while the issue of rampant corruption came in to the light. “Yeddyurappa dared his party high command to take action against him and he survived,” Mr Gehlot said.
The CM said that the BJP leaders were targeting Mrs Gandhi in a bid to just weaken the Congress Party. Referring recent comments by Mr Advani, Mr Gehlot asked the senior BJP leader the reason of his being silent when his own party members, including the BJP’s national vice-president Kailsah Meghwal raised the issue of corruption against erstwhile chief minister Raje.
“Mr Meghwal termed `5,000 crores corruption against Raje and former vice-president, late Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, also charged Ms Raje for rampant corruption. Mr Advani should explain the reason why he could not take action on such serious issues raked by his own party leaders,” he said.