Accusing Congress of large-scale corruption, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators staged a protest on the premises of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly on Monday, before the third day of the session commenced.
The entire state is suffering. Development works have virtually come to a standstill and corruption has crossed all limits. “I wondered why they had brought briefcases.
Speaking to mediapersons in Shimla on the sidelines of the protest, Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur said, “The current government is completely mired in corruption. During the protest, Thakur said the BJP would continue to “expose what it termed the government’s failures and corruption”. Dismissing the protest as “mere theatrics”, Sukhu said, “BJP’s protest with briefcases was an attempt to level allegations against a government that, according to him, was committed to clean governance”. Where did this briefcase politics come from?” he said, referring to the political developments surrounding the defection of six Congress MLAs. Sukhu said his government would ensure that any wealth allegedly accumulated by corrupt means was brought before the people. He said the government was pursuing its fight against corruption and claimed that more names would emerge in the coming days. Responding to allegations that the Congress government was engaging in “politics of vendetta”, Sukhu said there was a distinction between political vendetta and action against corruption.
In more than 3 years of our government neither any minister in the cabinet nor the government had faced such allegations in the manner being portrayed by the opposition”.
Reacting to BJP allegations of corruption against his government, Sukhu said, “We have zero tolerance to corruption.
