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BJP targets Cong on corruption
BJP Targets Congress on Corruption. The BJP on Monday stepped up the attack on the Congress for trying to suppress the scams that have rocked the nation. The BJP claimed that what has been revealed was through external agencies and not through the oversight of the Government.
It is intriguing fact that practically every major scam in the Congress-led UPA regime has been discovered outside India and then the UPA Government was forced to order a domestic investigation
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday stepped up the attack on the Congress for trying to suppress the scams that have rocked the nation. The BJP claimed that what has been revealed was through external agencies and not through the oversight of the Government.
BJP Spokesman Prakash Javadekar said, “It is intriguing fact that practically every major scam in the Congress-led UPA regime has been discovered outside India and then the UPA Government was forced to order a domestic investigation. The Congress regime always tried to hide the scam in the first place. Deny the existence of the scam afterwards. It instituted investigation only when cornered by the circumstances. The investigation makes progress only if it is monitored by the courts; otherwise it becomes a cover-up operation.” The Government was forced to cancel the deal thereafter and CBI probe was ordered.
Prakash Javadekar said that the CBI investigation should be fair and it should be court-monitored. Otherwise, the investigation could be derailed, he said.
Meanwhile, the Defence Ministry has put on hold all existing and future deals with Rolls Royce pending a CBI probe ordered into allegations of bribery and engaging middlemen in contracts worth Rs 10,000 crore for supply of aircraft engines to state-owned HAL
The CBI probe was ordered by Defence Minister A K Antony, following the arrest in Britain last month of Indian-born businessman Sudhir Choudhrie and his son Bhanu in a bribery investigation by the British Serious Fraud Office into Rolls-Royce's dealings in China and Indonesia.
The latest in the series is the Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engine scam. About Rs 500 crore kickbacks was alleged in the deal that was signed in 2011 by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with Rolls Royce. It was for the annual maintenance and repair of the aero-engines fitted in nearly 70 Hawk advanced jet trainers, used to prepare Indian Air Force pilots to fly next-generation fighter jets.
The aircraft engines scam was revealed through the documents that bribes were paid to the officials and two politicians for whom abbreviations like ‘Fam” and “AP” were used. The deduction was that “fam” was abbreviation to “family” and “AP” was abbreviation of a politician close to the first family of the ruling party.
