Advani Wants Campaigns To Expose Corruption

Raising the pitch against corruption and black money, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani here Saturday called upon party workers to launch country-wide "agitational programmes" in the next three months, a senior party leader said.

Advani suggested the programmes for awakening the masses over the corrupt practices of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the leader said.

The senior BJP leader said the party might explore a "legal mechanism" against the Congress-led central government if it continued to "damage the federal structure of the country" and adopted a step-motherly treatment towards non-Congress-ruled states.

"He (Advani) felt that for making the public aware about the rampant corruption in the UPA government, the party should come up with campaigns," BJP national general secretary Narendra Singh Tomar told reporters while briefing them about Advani’s speech at the party’s two-day national executive meeting that ended Saturday.

“Advaniji categorically mentioned that if the Congress-led UPA continues to damage the country’s federal structure and ignores the non-Congress state governments by adopting step-motherly attitude towards them, then the BJP would not only launch constitutional protests but also explore a legal path," added Tomar.

Accusing the UPA of not having “adequate will power” to fight corruption, Advani said it was the main reason why corrupt practices were not being contained in the country, Tomar added.

As per the plan drawn by the party for awakening the masses over corruption and black money issues, the BJP will organise rallies from July.

“In July and August 'mahasangram' rallies would be organised in rural and urban parts. We will also distribute literature among the masses to apprise them about corrupt practices of the central government," BJP president Nitin Gadkari told partymen.

“In September too, the rallies would be organised at important places. They would focus on exposing illegal practices adopted by the Congress against (BJP leader) Murli Manohar Joshi who prepared PAC (parliament's public accounts committee) report over the 2G (spectrum allocation) scam," he added.

BJP leader Sushma Swaraj attacked the UPA for going soft against the Maoists. She termed the Congress-led central government as a “Naxalite supporter".