15 March, 2011 (English) - Bharatiya Janata Party

Mahasangram Rally, Rohtak (Haryana)UPA regime most corruptin history of the Nation : Sushma SwarajFrom Our CorrespondentThe Congress-led UPAgovernment at the Centrehas emerged as asynonym of corruption and it ishigh time the country got rid ofthe government that has createdinnumerable problems for theaam aadmi said Leader of theOpposition in the Lok Sabha Smt.Sushma Swaraj whileaddressing a massive state-levelMahasangram Rallyorganised by the Stateunit of BJP in Rohtak onFebruary 20, 2011. Shesaid the Prime Ministerhas been trying to coverup scams for thesurvival of thegovernment and theCongress governmenthas turned out to be themost corruptgovernment in thehistory of the nation.Urging the people tojoin hands to uproot thecorrupt UPAgovernment at theCentre, she said thatscams and corruptionwere the gifts given bythe government to the people inreturn for the faith reposed bythe voters in it in the lastelections.Criticizing the ManmohanSingh Government over thealleged scams during his tenure,Smt. Swaraj said it was strangethat the Prime Minister wasclaiming that he was notresponsible for all that has beenMarch 1-15, 2011 13going on.She said the BJP and theNDA would not backtrack ontheir demand for a JPC probe intomajor scams, including the 2-Gand the Commonwealth GamesscamsShe further said that thedemocracy was having a hardtime in the country and theOpposition would raise the issueof corruption with full forceduring the Budget Session of theParliament, commencing onFebruary 21.She also asked the PrimeMinister not to protect corruptpeople and ministers in the nameof coalition compulsion.Addressing the rally theNational Democratic Alliance(NDA) convenor and Janata Dal(United) President Shri SharadYadav said the Prime Minister,Dr. Manmohan Singh, isheading the most ever corruptedUnion Cabinet in the history ofIndia. Under his corrupt regimeall four pillars of Democracy-Legislature, Executive, Judiciaryand Media had come under greatthreat.Shri Yadav further said thiswas for the first time in thehistory of Indian politics whenso many Ministers of the UnionGovernment had been foundindulging in scams of thousandsof crores of rupees and despiteall, the chief of the Governmentclaims that he had beenproviding corruption-freegovernment and doing enough...Continued on page 30