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Jethmalani has strong words for BJP
There was more trouble for the BJP leadership on Saturday, with noted lawyer and senior BJP MP Ram Jethmalani criticising the functioning of the party in Parliament in a strongly-worded letter addressed to BJP president Nitin Gadkari.
Flummoxed by the party’s “silence” to effectively counter the UPA-II Government on issues involving huge corruption, Jethmalani hinted in his May 23 letter that due to the party’s conduct, the masses may nurse a suspicion whether BJP had become an “impotent spectator” to the loot of our finances.
Hinting at the infighting within the party, Jethmalani also hit out at Gadkari for not being active on the issue of Presidential election on the Government’s proposal to field Pranab Mukherjee.
His letter said, “Today, the nation has realised that its poverty and destitution are the result of widespread corruption and large-scale larceny of the national assets by mainly our present rulers. I am convinced and so is the nation by and large that half the present Cabinet ought to be in jail,” Jethmalani said.
Addressing Gadkari as a colleague in the letter, the Rajya Sabha MP presumed that the party leader would be as concerned as him about the “sickness of party” which registers no response to the even greater sickness of the ruling party.
He proposed, “Our party leaders should be going round the country and proclaiming the stark truth. Our party workers must be holding demonstrations in every city and hamlet, in fact every nook and corner of the country. The nation wants feverish action.” Instead, he added that the country has got “tongue-tied leaders busy pulling down one another and creating an unmistakable impression that they are suffering from some inexplicable inertia and paralysis”.
There was more trouble for the BJP leadership on Saturday, with noted lawyer and senior BJP MP Ram Jethmalani criticising the functioning of the party in Parliament in a strongly-worded letter addressed to BJP president Nitin Gadkari.
Flummoxed by the party’s “silence” to effectively counter the UPA-II Government on issues involving huge corruption, Jethmalani hinted in his May 23 letter that due to the party’s conduct, the masses may nurse a suspicion whether BJP had become an “impotent spectator” to the loot of our finances.
Hinting at the infighting within the party, Jethmalani also hit out at Gadkari for not being active on the issue of Presidential election on the Government’s proposal to field Pranab Mukherjee.
His letter said, “Today, the nation has realised that its poverty and destitution are the result of widespread corruption and large-scale larceny of the national assets by mainly our present rulers. I am convinced and so is the nation by and large that half the present Cabinet ought to be in jail,” Jethmalani said.
Addressing Gadkari as a colleague in the letter, the Rajya Sabha MP presumed that the party leader would be as concerned as him about the “sickness of party” which registers no response to the even greater sickness of the ruling party.
He proposed, “Our party leaders should be going round the country and proclaiming the stark truth. Our party workers must be holding demonstrations in every city and hamlet, in fact every nook and corner of the country. The nation wants feverish action.” Instead, he added that the country has got “tongue-tied leaders busy pulling down one another and creating an unmistakable impression that they are suffering from some inexplicable inertia and paralysis”.
