Led by the “weakest Prime Minister ever”, the UPA Government was suffering from a “multiple organ failure” and was showing all symptoms of a “terminal decline”, with its Ministers fighting in the open and allies distancing themselves from the regime quickly.
That was the nub of senior BJP leader LK Advani’s statement before the media on Friday during his 40-day Jan Chetna Yatra, aimed at creating public awareness against rampant corruption unleashed by the UPA regime.
Advani said Manmohan Singh’s Government was on the verge of kicking the bucket. He justified his remarks, saying there was large-scale resentment among the UPA allies who were gradually distancing themselves from the current regime’s unpopularity.
“The UPA Government ‘nominally led’ by Singh but ‘commanded’ by Sonia Gandhi is ‘exhibiting all signs of terminal decline’,” Advani said, adding that the condition could be described in medical parlance as “multiple organ failure.”
The Jan Chetna Yatra is aimed at “uniting the people of India to fight corruption, demand good governance and seek deliverance from the misrule of the Congress-led UPA regime that has brought India to its knees.”
According to Advani, corruption has eaten into the vitals of the UPA regime, with not only senior Ministers of Singh’s own party “publicly criticising and contradicting one another” but allies like the NCP and Trinamool Congress also feeling resentful. Several Ministers of the current regime are crowding Tihar Jail and “others are waiting in the queue to enter,” he quipped.
The latest outburst by NCP leader Sharad Pawar against the Congress president’s “extravagant, populist proposal for a Food Security Act clearly represents the NCP’s annoyance at having to bear the cross” of the Congress’ nose-diving image as a perpetrator and overseer of huge corruption in the upper echelons of the Central Government.
Advani, however, wondered why Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was still silent on the issues of corruption, notwithstanding the fact that her party “Trinamool Congress is distancing itself” from the Centre. The BJP leader specially mentioned the Union Government’s ignoring of the Bengal ally in the botched Teesta water sharing pact with Bangladesh.
Calling the UPA a “divided regressive alliance” on account of “internal dissension that stems from mounting public anger against the systematic loot of the country,” Advani said, “India’s image in the world is at an all time low as its governing alliance has become a byword for corruption” - a fact “exemplified by the 2G, CWG, Adarsh, Air India and myriad other scams”.
The BJP leader said he did not approve of the right to recall, which he felt could not be applied in a large country like India. “However, I would strongly back electoral reforms - particularly with a view to end the influence of money power on elections,” he said.
Advani reiterated his demands “to publish names of the people with black money in Swiss banks and bringing of a white paper on what efforts the Government has taken to bring the money back to the country”.
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