Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M Venkaiah Naidu has said that it was up to the United Progressive Alliance government to ensure that Parliament functioned smoothly in the budget session by agreeing to the Opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G Spectrum scam.
Lambasting the Congress-led government in the Centre for its 'corrupt rule', the BJP leader said: "The BJP wants Parliament to function, but the government must order a JPC probe into 2 G Spectrum scam. The Parliament and the people have right to know in detail about persons involved in it and the actual magnitude of the scam."
The people of the country were very restive about the corruption assuming an alarming proportion under the UPA regime, prices hitting the roof and the government's apparent inaction to bring back black money stashed away in foreign banks despite the intervention from the Supreme Court. The BJP warns the UPA government that if it fails to sense the level of frustration among people over these issues, then there will be a mass agitation
against it soon, Naidu said.
Criticising the Congress government for politicising institutions like the Central Bureau of Investigation, Central Vigilance Commission, and Governor for narrow political gains, the BJP has demanded that these institutions be made autonomous and accountable to Parliament.
When asked how the BJP is planning to save its government in Karnataka in the wake of the Governor sanctioning the prosecution of Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa over the alleged land scam, Naidu said: "Where is the is question of saving the government? It is well placed. The law will take its own course. The Governor in Karnataka has converted the Raj Bhawan there to Congress Bhawan. He came with the intention of destabilising the BJP-led government there, as Congress doesn't want the first BJP government in the South to survive."
"The Congress should make the Governor the executive president of the party there, as Congress would need him given the party's defeat in panchayat and civic bodies election in that state," Naidu quipped.