Congress targeting Team Anna over graft, says BJP


Lucknow, Sep 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday said the central government was harassing Anna Hazare's associates and it was clear that the Congress will attack "anybody who raises his voice against corruption".

Flaying the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said: ?Action taken by the Congress-led government has proved beyond doubt that this party believes in training its guns against anybody and everybody who raises his voice against corruption.?

Addressing a press conference here, Prasad said: ?It is really shocking the way the central government is going about harassing Anna Hazare and his team, including Arvind Kejriwal, who is now being branded as the biggest law offender.?

?If Kejriwal was such an undesirable person as the central government is now trying to paint him, then why did top Congress ministers invite him for long parleys on the Jan Lokpal Bill?? he asked.

He said that anyone who raises the issue of corruption becomes persona non grata for the Congress leadership.

"This is also happening with Kiran Bedi and Prashant Bhushan," he added.

Prasad was of the view that the various notices issued by different government departments to Team Anna members were simply intended to intimidate them.

?We have seen this happening earlier when Congress leaders initially hailed Baba Ramdev, but the moment he started talking about India?s black money stacked in Swiss banks, he became their target of ridicule and contempt,? he said.

?Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party are part of the same triangle on the issue of corruption,? Prasad added.

 


 

  

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  • Pradeep, Rajkot

    Mon, Sep 05 2011

    BJP said the central government was harassing Anna Hazare's associates and it was clear that the Congress will attack "anybody who raises his voice against corruption. OF COURSE, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRYSTAL-CLEAR EVEN TO AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT, IS IT NOT? Ravi Shankar Prasad said: Action taken by the Congress-led government has proved beyond doubt that this party believes in training its guns against anybody and everybody who raises his voice against corruption.

    WHICH MORON IN INDIA DOESN’T KNOW THAT YET? Prasad said: It is really shocking the way the central government is going about harassing Anna Hazare and his team, including Arvind Kejriwal, who is now being branded as the biggest law offender. WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE KAURAV PARIVAR? HONESTY? MORALITY? HUMBLENESS? FAIRNESS? JUSTICE? CARE FOR THE PEOPLE? CAN THEY BE EXPECTED TO BE ON THE SIDE OF DHARMA? OR RIGHTEOUSNESS? CAN THE KAURAV PARIVAR BE EXPECTED TO BRING IN A LAW THAT WOULD HELP TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION? REALLY? AREN’T YOU KIDDING YOURSELVES? THEY ARE NOT HOLDING OFFICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF BHARAT. THEY ARE HOLDING OFFICE FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR KIND. THEY ARE HOLDING OFFICE IN ORDER TO LOOT BHARAT-DESH. DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY CARE ABOUT BHARAT, OR FOR THE PEOPLE OF BHARAT? DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY TOOK OFFICE IN ORDER TO SERVE BHARAT-DESH? THEY TOOK OFFICE TO LOOT BHARAT-DESH. THEY WANT US TO LEAVE IT TO THEM TO MAKE THE LAWS! HOW CLEVER ARE WE IF WE VOTE FOR THEM IN THE NEXT ELECTIONS?

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  • Rajan Alexander, Bangalore

    Sat, Sep 03 2011

    Ford Foundation-Anna Link: More Damning Evidences starts surfacing

    ”If every beneficiary of the Ford Foundation fund was furthering a US interest, then IIM Bangalore dean Trilochan Shastri who started Association for Democratic Reforms with IIM alumni too must be doing that.”

    This was Arvind Kejriwal, key aide of Anna Hazare in a recent interview to Business Standard. Make no mistake. Shastry may not grab the headlines as the likes of Kejriwal do these days. Shastry additionally may not be a Magsaysay awardee but in terms of sheer value of assets that the US has in this country to “further their interests”, then Kejriwal perhaps cannot hold a candle to Shastry. This is why while the US leaves Kejriwal to rabble rouse the streets, it confers the honour of a Breton Woods Committee membership on Shastry.

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