Let BJP Answer Who’s Most Corrupt Yeddy or PM, Asks Gowda

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Bangalore, Jan 7: JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda ridiculed BJP’s demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh without any shred of evidence on its alleged corruption charges in the 2G Spectrum scam when the saffron party had maintained ``total silence” against the proven charges of corruption, nepotism, favouritism and other irregularities in various land scams against Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

"Let the BJP national leadership and the Sangh Parivar first answer who is most corrupt?,” he said wondering whether a person known for his probity and integrity like the Prime Minister could ever be compared with a person like Yeddyurappa ,who had shamelessly granted precious prime land worth crores of rupees to his sons, daughters, sons in laws and other relatives besides being guilty of various irregularities including denotification of valuable government lands.

“What moral right do they have to speak about Manmohan Singh? If they have minimum decency and an iota of shame, Yeddyurappa should have been asked to step down,” the former prime minister said lambasting the BJP national high command and the Sangh Parivar for shamelessly remaining silent after Yeddyurappa refused to obey their directives to resign.

Continuing his tirade against the Yeddyurappa government, he said the Yeddyurappa regime was the worst in the history of Karnataka.

The BJP leaders are attacking Manmohan Singh over the Bofors scandal, which was nothing but a ``petty” matter when compared to the huge scams in Karnataka amounting to Rs 1 lakh crore. It is one of the heinous acts of the BJP central leadership to support this worst-ever and most corrupt government, he said.

The former Prime Minister said that he had sent a booklet published by his JD(S) party on the ‘corruption’ of Yeddyurappa government to senior leaders of BJP including, L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley.

``I want to know what action these champions of democracy and probity in public life are going to do on the proven corruption charges against Yeddyurappa,” he said.  Gowda wanted to know the stand of Arun Jaitely, who incidentally is the designated party in-charge for Karnataka, on the corruption charges against Yeddurappa. He pointed out that the Karnataka governor H R Bhardwaj had provided details and documentary evidence on the charges against the Yeddyurappa regime when Jaitely called on the Raj Bhavan recently.

The JD(S) national president said it was the duty of all secular parties to join forces to oust the communal and corrupt Yeddyurappa regime.