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BJP, Congress hand-in-glove, says Uma

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Corruption thriving in Madhya Pradesh under present regime, alleges Bharatiya Janshakti chief

GOING HAMMER AND TONGS: Bhartiya Janshakti president Uma Bharti addressing the State-level convention of the party in Bhopal on Friday. -- Photo: A. M. Faruqui

BHOPAL: Bharatiya Janshakti president Uma Bharti has launched a frontal attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh saying that many of its State leaders are hand-in-glove with those in the Congress and not willing to expose and bring to book those who have indulged in corruption.

`Bharat Bachao Yatra'

Ms. Bharti, who reached here on Thursday evening leading her "Bharat Bachao Yatra", launched her tirade while addressing a huge public rally later at night.

She did not spare former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former party president L.K. Advani and was extremely critical of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, former Chief Minister and now the State Industries Minister, Babulal Gaur, Minister for Public Works Department, Kailash Vijayvargiya, and State party general secretary Kaptan Singh Solanki.

She said the former Chief Minister and AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh was extremely vocal against her when she was the Chief Minster but now he was completely silent. "He neither uttered a word against her successor Babulal Gaur nor was he prepared to say anything against Mr. Chauhan as both of them touch his feet," she charged.

Lashing out at BJP on the corruption front, Ms. Bharti said BJP and Congress had "jointly conspired to hush up Madhya Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation's massive inter-corporate deposit scam running into hundreds of crores".

"Similarly efforts are on to sweep under the carpet gross irregularities linked with Indore's Master Plan," the former BJP leader alleged.

Speaking at a State-level membership convention here on Friday, Ms. Bharti asked her party workers to focus attention on enrolling maximum number of women as members. She also inaugurated her State party office and launched her party's website. However, attempts to log on to the website failed.

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