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“Shourie's deposition will bring out truth”

Nirmala Sitaraman

HYDERABAD: BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman has said that the decision of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G scam to summon Arun Shourie and other Information Technology Ministers during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime would help bring out the truth in the massive scandal.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Ms. Sitaraman said the BJP had no issue with IT Ministers of the NDA government appearing before the JPC because there was nothing against them as all policy decisions were made by the Cabinet. She was in the city as part of a three-day nationwide tour by national office-bearers of the BJP to expose corruption under the UPA dispensation.

Contrary to the collective responsibility of the Cabinet in the NDA regime, Ms. Sitaraman said that a “kitchen cabinet” comprising the National Advisory Council headed by Sonia Gandhi executed programmes of the government. The BJP viewed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the notional head of the government who lacked authority. The control points were held by some others who escaped accountability.

Justifying the comparison made by the BJP on the swoop on yoga guru Baba Ramdev's hunger strike camp to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, she said about 5,000 policemen fortified Ramlila grounds in the midnight operation that did not even spare women. The government acted with a vendetta which was clear from Union Minister Kapil Sibal's remark that the organisers of the camp had to be taught a lesson. Ms. Sitaraman demanded that a session of Parliament be convened immediately to discuss the incident. She also demanded Ms. Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi to respond and the government to apologise to the injured.

She criticised the selective sympathy of Ms. Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi to the victims of police atrocities in Bhatta-Parsaul while keeping silent on the events at Ramlila grounds.

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