New Delhi: Congress on Monday hit out at L K Advani for his remarks that his party will not make any compromise with corruption reminding him that half a dozen ministers in BJP-ruled Karnataka are facing graft charges and a former Chief Minister has sought bail in one such case.
"Advani is pointing out corruption in UPA but forgetting what happened in his party`s backyard in Karanataka. Never before in Parliamentary history, half a dozen incumbent government ministers faced graft charges and a former Chief Minister had to go to jail in corruption case," AICC general secretary B K Hariprasad told reporters here. Terming Advani`s call against corruption as "hypocrisy and doublespeak of BJP", Hariprasad said, "When such is the history of BJP, Advani has no moral right to speak on the issue of corruption."
He said the senior BJP leader on the one hand talks of clean politics while on the other hand, "Advani`s competitor Narendra Modi obstructs the appointment of a Lokayukta in Gujarat".
He alleged that BJP leader Anant Kumar, who is guiding the Yatra in Karnataka, is himself involved in HUDCO land scam.
With land and mining scams dogging the BJP government in Karnataka, BJP leader L K Advani yesterday said in Bangalore that his party would not make any compromise with corruption in the states ruled by it. "Good governance cannot co-exist with corruption...I am not saying this only to the Congress. I am telling this to me (my party) also. If there is corruption in us (party-ruled governments), we will not compromise," he said during his 45-minute address there.
PTI