Senior leaders of the Congress party lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday after BJP's newly inducted member Babu Singh Kushwaha was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
CBI conducted raids at 50 places in Delhi, Lucknow and other places in the country investigating Babu Singh Kushwaha's alleged involvement in the National Rural Health Mission scam.
Induction of Kushwaha into the BJP gave Congress an opportunity to attack the BJP leadership, particularly L K Advani and party president Nitin Gadkari, who had been very vocal in lending support to Anna Hazare's Jan Lokpal Bill.
Senior leaders of the Congress party lashed out at both the BJP as well as Team Anna Hazare. "May I ask why Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi, Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan are silent on the BJP inducting a corrupt former minister from Uttar Pradesh," asked one of the spokespersons of the party. Several Congress minister at the centre wanted to know what happened to the so-called morality of the BJP.
Kushwaha, who was minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, was sacked by Chief Minister Mayawati on grounds of corruption and amassing a huge amount of moveable and immoveable properties when he was minister.
When asked to react on the charge made by the Congress Party, Prashant Bhushan, one of the five members of Team Anna, told rediff.com on Wednesday evening that the core group would hold discussions with Anna Hazare and then take stock of the situation.
CBI had registered several cases against him under the prevention of corruption act. According to senior CBI officials of the anti-corruption wing, Kushwaha had embezzled money from the National Rural Health Mission when he was minister of health and family welfare.
CBI registered five new cases on Monday in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of NRHM in Uttar Pradesh and conducted searches.
