Sushma justifies BJP's Parliamentary agitation over Coalgate

(News from India) 

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj has justified her party’s Parliamentary agitation, and has vowed that its agitation against the centre for its involvement in the Coalgate scandal would continue outside Parliament.

While addressing a joint press conference as the Monsoon session ended, BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley blamed the government for the chaos in Parliament and vowed to take coal blocks allocation issue to the streets.

Addressing a press conference, Swaraj said that disruptions in Parliament began after Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on coal blocks allocation was tabled.

Addressing a media conference moments after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slammed the BJP for ‘negating democracy’, Swaraj said that they had made it very clear to both the government and the speaker of the house that they were not willing to debate the CAG report  on coal block allocation. She added that they had told the government that they would allow Parliament to function if coal block allocations were cancelled, but that the government had refused.

“The government’s corrupt face has been exposed and this biggest scam by the government has been shown by the BJP”, she added.

BJP leader Arun Jaitley said "Let the Centre institute a commission of inquiry into the coal allocation issue before which the Prime Minister could depose."

 Jaitley said that it was now clear that the PM and PMO were guiding the process of coal block allocations. “Coal block allocations were discretionary, arbitrary and to put it simply, done corruptly”, he said.

Saying that the UPA was a regime committed to Kleptocracy, Jaitley alleged that allocations were made to businessmen and politicians linked to the UPA. “Given there were more applicants than resources there should have been auctions. This is a textbook case of crony capitalism”, he said. (Credit-www.samaylive.com)