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Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said there were no strictures against Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and he had done nothing wrong as far as the law was concerned.
Responding to questions at an informal interaction with the media, Mr. Gadkari said, “Tell me, what are the charges against him? There is no CAG report against him, no Lokayukta report. As Chief Minister he has discretionary powers which he can use,” he said.
Mr. Yeddyurappa's name figured in the issue of illegal denotification of land to benefit his family and associates. Even H.D. Kumaraswamy and before him S.M. Krishna had used their discretionary powers and denotified land, Mr. Gadkari said.
“You cannot use the institution of the Governor to demand the resignation of just one Chief Minister,” he said.
Then why had the BJP leadership asked Mr. Yeddyurappa to resign? Mr Gadkari said he had not asked for any such thing.
To a question as to why BJP leader L.K. Advani had apologised to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he said, that it was Ms. Gandhi who had written a letter to Mr Advani after her name cropped up in the BJP's report on black money.
Mr. Advani only replied to this and he expressed regrets if this had hurt her. It was not really an apology as the media had made it out to be, he remarked.
On BJP leader Gopinath Munde's suggestion of a third party in the saffron alliance in Maharashtra, Mr. Gadkari said that Mr. Munde had expressed his opinion.
The issue would go to the party's Core Committee in the State and maybe later to the Central Committee.
He said if all the forces in the State could come together to oust the ‘corrupt' government of the Congress and the NCP, it could be considered. However, the party first had to discuss the matter.
He said the Opposition's pressure had led to the announcement of the Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G spectrum scam and it was a triumph.
“The government had assured us of a thorough probe into the Commonwealth Games scam,” he added.
Responding to questions at an informal interaction with the media, Mr. Gadkari said, “Tell me, what are the charges against him? There is no CAG report against him, no Lokayukta report. As Chief Minister he has discretionary powers which he can use,” he said.
Mr. Yeddyurappa's name figured in the issue of illegal denotification of land to benefit his family and associates. Even H.D. Kumaraswamy and before him S.M. Krishna had used their discretionary powers and denotified land, Mr. Gadkari said.
“You cannot use the institution of the Governor to demand the resignation of just one Chief Minister,” he said.
Then why had the BJP leadership asked Mr. Yeddyurappa to resign? Mr Gadkari said he had not asked for any such thing.
To a question as to why BJP leader L.K. Advani had apologised to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he said, that it was Ms. Gandhi who had written a letter to Mr Advani after her name cropped up in the BJP's report on black money.
Mr. Advani only replied to this and he expressed regrets if this had hurt her. It was not really an apology as the media had made it out to be, he remarked.
On BJP leader Gopinath Munde's suggestion of a third party in the saffron alliance in Maharashtra, Mr. Gadkari said that Mr. Munde had expressed his opinion.
The issue would go to the party's Core Committee in the State and maybe later to the Central Committee.
He said if all the forces in the State could come together to oust the ‘corrupt' government of the Congress and the NCP, it could be considered. However, the party first had to discuss the matter.
He said the Opposition's pressure had led to the announcement of the Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G spectrum scam and it was a triumph.
“The government had assured us of a thorough probe into the Commonwealth Games scam,” he added.