UPA suffering from anarchy of leadership crisis : BJP

Source: News Bharati

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Ravi Shankar Prasad (File Photo)

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New Delhi, September 30 : The BJP on Friday launched a fresh broadside at the UPA government as its national executive meet started in the national capital on Friday. BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad, briefing the media on party president Nitin Gadkari's opening speech at the national executive meet, took on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his inability to control corruption in his government.

"The UPA government is suffering from anarchy of leadership crisis," Prasad said, adding, "Why is Manmohan Singh holding the prime minister's post if he is so indifferent and oblivious of people's problem?" The main opposition party, which met to fine tune the strategy for veteran leader L.K. Advani's yatra against corruption, turned the heat on the government.

Prasad trained his guns on the government over the 2G spectrum allocation scam insisting that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was wrong to give a clean chit to Home Minister P. Chidambaram. He sought to know why the CBI was not inclined to question the former finance minister.

Dismissing Mukherjee's clean chit to Chidambaram on the 2G note, Prasad said the finance minister had made a "comical" statement on Thursday. He insisted that Chidambaram should be in jail for his role in the 2G case.

Prasad denied reports thatGujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who missed the first day of the meet, has been upset with the party. "It is wrong to say that he has not come on account of differences, but it is because of Navratra. Yeddyurappa is performing shradh of his deceased wife," Prasad said, adding, "Narendra Modi is one of the candidates for prime ministership and as it has been stated, the issue will be decided by the parliamentary board."

Talking about the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Prasad said the BJP would fight the election on its own and there would be no tie-up with the BSP or the Samajwadi Party. Saying the BJP's position in the state was improving and the party "may be able to come to power" Prasad said there was a triangle in the state involving the Congress, SP and BSP.

"There will be no alliance with any party in any situation. We would prefer sitting in the Opposition (if party loses)," he added.