New Delhi, Aug 17: Striking an aggressive posture, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on Saturday charged the Opposition with indulging in "character assassination and slander campaign out of frustration" by targeting him, Union ministers Pramod Mahajan, Ananth Kumar, Ram Naik and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "The Opposition is saying whatever they feel like. They are attacking me, Modi, Naik, Ananth Kumar and Mahajan. This does not reflect confidence, but frustration," Advani said inaugurating a day-long political conference of the Delhi unit of the BJP. Terming the allegations regarding the petrol pump and land allotments as "baseless", Advani said, "It is just a slander campaign as they have realised that BJP cannot be ousted and the party is stabilising."
"We were aware of many irregularities done by previous governments, but they were exposed through the courts, through writ petitions. No political party can gain by making such charges and indulging in a character assassination campaign," he said.
"It is indeed regrettable that the Opposition can stoop so low," the Deputy Prime Minister said. On the charges that some organisations affiliated to RSS have been given land in the capital`s institutional areas, "people living in glass houses should not throw stones at others. About 4,000 applicantss have been allotted land as per the laid down procedures. Is it a crime if a handful of them are related to the RSS?" Bureau Report