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‘Cash-for-votes’: BJP on offensive

BHUBANESWAR: In their effort to take the issue of alleged bribing of three of their Members of Parliament by the United Progressive Alliance government to the people, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised a protest meeting here on Sunday.

Senior leaders of the party who addressed the meeting at Master Canteen said that they would organise similar meetings in different parts of the State to ‘expose’ the real face of the Congress-led UPA government.

State Industry Minister and leader of the BJP legislature party Biswabhushan Harichandan termed the alleged payment of bribe to the party MPs in New Delhi as the handiwork of Congress to undermine the democratic values of the country. Congress party had the habit of bribing MPs, he observed. Hundreds of workers, including a large number of women, participated in the meeting which was presided over by the party’s State unit president Suresh Pujari. Among others who addressed the rally include party’s Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, Deogarh MP Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister Manmohan Samal.

In their address, they criticised the Congress and its allies for offering bribe to their MPs a day before the confidence vote in Parliament on July 22.

The leaders also came down heavily on the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president Shibu Soren for his reported demand for merger of the districts of Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Sundargarh with Jharkhand for the formation of Greater Jharkhand.

Mr. Soren had reportedly made this demand as one of the many conditions he put before the UPA government for supporting it during the July 22 trust vote.

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