Capt pooh-poohs Gadkari’s defence of dropped ministers
Saturday, 26/11/2011
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today questioned the claims of BJP chief Nitin Gadkari that former ministers Manoranjan Kalia, Swarna Ram and Master Mohan Lal had not been removed on corruption charges. .
He asked Gadkari to explain as to why the three were removed from the Cabinet if not for graft. The former Chief Minister said since the BJP was trying to take a high moral ground on corruption, it was finding it difficult to explain the removal of its own ministers on corruption charges.
“There is a dichotomy between what they preach and what they practice”, Capt Amarinder Singh remarked, while maintaining that Gadkari’s defence of his tainted leaders was too little, too late.
“It was aimed at giving the tainted leaders a clean chit on the eve of elections as the party has no better candidates to field and has to bank on the tainted lot,” the PCC chief said.
