In a stinging attack on BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today charged the principal opposition with ignoring corruption in states ruled by it and blocking passage of six anti-graft bills by Parliament.
Puncturing BJP's anti-corruption campaign against the UPA government, Gandhi said, "their leader (Modi) is travelling across India and talking about eradicating corruption."
"But does he (Modi) see their leaders in Karnataka indulging in corruption. He doesn't see that their party's then CM (B S Yeddyurappa) was jailed on corruption charges. He doesn't even see 16 of their ministers (in Karnataka) had to resign (on graft issue)," he said at 'Bharat Nirman" rally here.
Gandhi said, "he (Modi) does not see corruption in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka."
"In Karnataka, you people removed BJP from power due to corruption. Thereafter, the then CM has again come back to BJP, but their leaders ignore this," he said, referring to Yeddyurappa's readmission into BJP after merger of his Karnataka Janata Paksha with it recently.
Gandhi said BJP leaders see corruption in only Congress-ruled states, adding,"they don't see it anywhere else."
"Even if corruption takes place in Gujarat, they ignore it," he said, in a dig at Modi. "Wherever they do not have their governments,they see corruption taking place."
Gandhi also attacked BJP for "blocking" passage of six anti-graft bills, which form part of government's anti-corruption framework and for whose passage he is pushing aggressively.
"Who is standing against those bills? We want to pass them. We are being stopped in Parliament. Who is stopping it? BJP is stopping it. They don't allow functioning of Parliament," Gandhi said.
"Today in Parliament six anti-graft bills are pending. The bills which are of help to you. The bills that give power to you," the Congress Vice-President said.
