The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has hit out at Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma for siding with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament.
Gandhi was disqualified after being convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for criminal defamation. While the disqualification, which came even though Gandhi was given leave to appeal, was condemned by politicians and political parties from across the spectrum, Sangma leant his full support to the central government.
AICC media coordinator, Bobbeeta Sharma, said here today that it is now very clear that Sangma is with the BJP.
Sangma’s National People’s Party (NPP) and the BJP are in government together but the recent Assembly election was a no-holds-barred fight between the two. During the campaign, the Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the NPP-led government of the previous five years of being the most corrupt in the whole country. But, as soon as it emerged that the NPP was the largest party in the incoming Assembly, the BJP was the first party to pledge its support once again and all talk of investigations into the alleged corruption disappeared into thin air.
“This was only a drama in front of the people that the NPP were not with the BJP and vice versa,” Sharma said at a press conference today. “We knew that they were always together and now they (BJP) have fallen into their own trap by saying that the NPP is the most corrupt government in the country. So, let the BJP answer. When somebody is corrupt, you always put the CID, ED and everybody after them. So, why not after this NPP government and the Chief Minister?”
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh has written to CBI Director Subodh Jaiswal asking the investigative agency to summon Shah over his remarks describing the previous government as the most corrupt and to investigate the claim but the CBI has yet to respond.
