Advani Hasn't Denied Expose On BJP: Yashwant Sinha


New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha Wednesday said veteran leader L.K. Advani "has not denied" the WikiLeaks expose about alleged doublespeak of the opposition party on the India-US civilian nuclear deal.

"Advaniji has not denied it, you also don't deny," Sinha told the Congress, participating in an animated discussion in the Lok Sabha on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's defence on the allegations in an earlier exposed cable that the ruling party had bribed MPs to win a parliamentary trust vote in 2008.

Sinha's remark gave ammunition to Congress MPs to target the BJP.

"He has not denied. Does it mean he has accepted? That means he has accepted it," Parliamentary Affairs Minister P.K. Bansal said.

According to WikiLeaks, the then US charge d'affaires in India, Peter Burleigh, in a cable, conveyed to Washington that the BJP's opposition to the nuclear deal was merely "public posturing" and its leaders, including Advani, were "assuring American officials privately that they were fine with it".

The BJP-related cable was exposed as the opposition targeted the Congress after dispatches by US diplomats, leaked by WikiLeaks and published in The Hindu, claimed that payoffs had been made to MPs to ensure a majority for the Congress-led government in the confidence vote following differences over the India-US nuclear deal in 2008.

Manmohan Singh has denied the parliament payoff charges.


 

  

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  • Francis, Mangalore/Dubai

    Wed, Mar 23 2011

    Maunam sarva sammatham!!

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  • Nancy, Mumbai

    Wed, Mar 23 2011

    Yashwant Sinha you have no right to tell our PM what to do ? Who are you in BJP to advise our PM. What is your position in BJP ? You resigned from BJP and came out. So better you mind your own business and PM need not need your advise. You came out of BJP as you had no UNITY. Now why you suddenly praising ADVANIJI. You both are enemies till today that is why you resigned from BJP. Now when you again became Advaniji's friend ?

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  • The Guru, Mangalore

    Wed, Mar 23 2011

    If BJP didnt had any problem with Nuclear deal then why did congress make some changes ??????

    A BIG SCAM is underneath this deal

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  • ISMAIL K PERINJE, PERINJE/YANBU-KSA

    Wed, Mar 23 2011

    Infact it is during NDA period then F.M.Jasawanth Sigh every other day visited US.NDA maintained cordial relations with US and I, perhaps, from that stage onwards US came near to India over the issues of bilateral and Intl issues.Therfore BJP has exposed it's doublespeak and ultrior motive when Indo-US Nuclear agreement inked.

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