Senior BJP leader LK Advani has hit out at the UPA Government for protecting corrupt Minister and targeting BJP leaders who blew the lid off the cash-forvote scandal of 2008.
Advani said Ashok Argal, sitting BJP MP, and two former parliamentarians, Mahavir Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste, who acted as whistleblowers in the scandal were being targeted when a Bill seeking protection to whistleblowers was under consideration of Parliament.
“It is indeed shocking to find that the ruling party these days is exerting its utmost to protect corrupt Ministers but has no qualms putting whistleblowers behind bars,“ Advani wrote on his blog. His post came on a day Delhi Police chargesheeted Argal in the case.
Advani recalled that the Manmohan Singh Cabinet approved a Bill which protects whistleblowers based on Law Commission's report submitted to the Government in December 2001. The whistleblowers' protection Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha.
“The Bill has not become law as yet. But the Cabinet having approved of it, Government should feel committed to its core principle,“ he said.
“The Bill has not become law as yet. But the Cabinet having approved of it, Government should feel committed to its core principle,“ he said.
Advani said his former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni along with ex-MPs Kulaste and Bhagora had “rendered a signal service to democracy by blowing the whistle to expose how in 2008 crores were given as bribes to Lok Sabha MPs to cross-vote in favour of the Congress,“ to win the trust vote when the Left parties had withdrawn support to the UPA I.
Quoting a WikiLeaks report on the events surrounding the trust vote, he said the Manmohan Singh Government “not only indulged in massive bribery to buy MPs to its side, but had no shame flaunting its dirty plans before US Embassy officials only to reassure that the UPA Government was not going to fall, and that the India US nuclear deal will go through”.
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