BJP president Rajnath Singh said his party will raise the

issue of chopper scam in Parliament forcefully. "I am demanding a comprehensive investigation into this helicopter scam. Whoever is guilty should be punished," he said. His party colleague Yashwant Sinha said, "the government will have to come out with the truth, not only about whether the deal has been cancelled or deal is on, but who is the ultimate beneficiary of the kickbacks." Reacting to BJP�s allegations that the Defence Ministry was "sleeping" over the reports of corruption in the Rs 3,600 crore deal for 12 VVIP choppers, Antony said, "I cannot wake up anybody who is sleeping". The Defence Ministry had started taking action on the issue from day one when first media reports in this regard came in, he said. He insisted that there were no differences between different ministries on the process of scrapping the deal and the whole government was working together. He regretted that despite blacklisting six firms in one scam for which he was accused of slowing down modernisation, such an incident has happened as "there was no end to human greed and still greedy people were working around the world." He said in the procurement process for the choppers, all wings of the Government including the Ministry, IAF and SPG had followed all the procedures. "In spite of that one thing is clear that something happened somewhere. It is the decision of the government that we must get to the root of the controversy to find out the truth and must find out the culprits. And whosoever is responsible, must be brought to justice at the earliest and then ensure maximum punishment. It is the resolve of the entire government," he said. "We are also awaiting the return of our official and the CBI team. We will proceed as per law but we will not show any mercy towards anyone," he said. (MORE)