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Defiant Jethmalani reiterates Gadkari resignation call
A day after the BJP reiterated its backing to its beleaguered chief Nitin Gadkari, a defiant Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday disapproved the party’s core group decision and termed it “a betrayal of the people”.
Maintaining that the party is losing moral ground in the fight against corruption, the BJP’s Rajya Sabha member came out with a written statement to make known his unhappiness with the party leadership for ignoring his advice that Gadkari must resign in the wake of allegations of dubious transactions involving his company.
“In the course of my fight against corruption, which may even turn out to be a lone fight, I will find it necessary to call for resignation of many persons holding important political and public offices,” Jethmalani cautioned.
“In this respect the party’s decision has sapped my vitality...I wish good luck to Mr Gadkari, Sh Gurumurthy and the members of the core group,” he said sarcastically in his statement.
He also took on the party’s appeal to all its leaders and workers not to air such views in public which hurt the image of the party saying, “The gag order does not apply to me. It applies to senior leaders. I am not a leader of the party much less a senior leader. I do propose, however, not to speak about this Gadkari affair anymore, except that it’s my duty to warn the party that it is losing moral ground and emasculating the party’s strength to fight the war against corruption.”
Earlier, Jethmalani said he will carry on his fight against the BJP president but will not quit the party. “I will carry on my fight alone if necessary, whatever the BJP might decide...I won’t resign from the party, because I want to carry on the fight. Why should I?”
Jethmalani, however, left it to the BJP leadership to decide on whether to allow Gadkari to continue. “They are respectable people, they hear everything what is happening in the Press. It is for them to decide,” he said.
A day after the BJP reiterated its backing to its beleaguered chief Nitin Gadkari, a defiant Ram Jethmalani on Wednesday disapproved the party’s core group decision and termed it “a betrayal of the people”.
Maintaining that the party is losing moral ground in the fight against corruption, the BJP’s Rajya Sabha member came out with a written statement to make known his unhappiness with the party leadership for ignoring his advice that Gadkari must resign in the wake of allegations of dubious transactions involving his company.
“In the course of my fight against corruption, which may even turn out to be a lone fight, I will find it necessary to call for resignation of many persons holding important political and public offices,” Jethmalani cautioned.
“In this respect the party’s decision has sapped my vitality...I wish good luck to Mr Gadkari, Sh Gurumurthy and the members of the core group,” he said sarcastically in his statement.
He also took on the party’s appeal to all its leaders and workers not to air such views in public which hurt the image of the party saying, “The gag order does not apply to me. It applies to senior leaders. I am not a leader of the party much less a senior leader. I do propose, however, not to speak about this Gadkari affair anymore, except that it’s my duty to warn the party that it is losing moral ground and emasculating the party’s strength to fight the war against corruption.”
Earlier, Jethmalani said he will carry on his fight against the BJP president but will not quit the party. “I will carry on my fight alone if necessary, whatever the BJP might decide...I won’t resign from the party, because I want to carry on the fight. Why should I?”
Jethmalani, however, left it to the BJP leadership to decide on whether to allow Gadkari to continue. “They are respectable people, they hear everything what is happening in the Press. It is for them to decide,” he said.
