Taking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his statement in the wake of scams that he was not as guilty as made out to be, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday asked him to tell the nation exactly "how much guilty" he was.
"The prime minister has been saying he does not know about any scam or appointment of P J Thomas as Central Vigilance Commisioner. Even at a media conference he said he was not as much guilty as made out to be by the Opposition. I ask him to tell the nation how much is his guilt amid a number of corruption cases?" he said at a party convention.
Noting that the country had the right to know the extent of the PM's involvement in the scams, he said, "People should know how much is his guilt in scams such as Comptroller and Auditor General and 2G Spectrum."
Terming the Congress as a "family fiefdom," Gadkari said, "Congress leaders such as P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee can dream of becoming the PM, but they can never dare to dream of becoming the party president as the post is reserved for a Gandhi only."
But in BJP, he claimed, any activist can aspire to become its president. "I am an example. I remember the days when as a party worker, I used to paste bills during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's meeting in Maharashtra. Now the same party has made me the president. Can any Congress leader think of it?" he asked.
Gadkari attributed corruption in Congress-led UPA government to the cause for price rise. "Corruption is the root cause of skyrocketing of prices ...A Raja is just a symbol of corruption...several corrupt leaders of Congress have become rich," he alleged.
