New Delhi: Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in San Jose made a veiled attack on Robert Vadra for corruption, a war of words has begun back home between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Refusing to pay any heed to 'baseless allegations' by the PM, Congress leader Manish Tewari raised the issue of alleged links of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Sushma Swaraj with former Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi.
"The question which needs to be asked is that there is a government in Delhi whose Foreign Minister aids a fugitive. There is a party in Delhi whose government in Rajasthan is making scams of thousands of crore. When PM makes allegations, he should retrospect the fourteen months of his government. Such baseless issues don’t have the need to be responded Before commenting on others they should look within their own relations," Tewari said.
Hitting back at the Congress, BJP claimed that Congress is guilty of corruption. "Congress gets angry because it is guilty, because it has a history of continuous and unimaginable scale of corruption. They try very silly forms of explanations," BJP leader MJ Akbar said.
In a veiled attack on corruption during UPA regime and a barb at the Congress President's son-in-law Robert Vadra, Modi deprecated the culture of graft in the country and said he has provided graft-free governance.
He said corruption during the previous government's time had triggered anger among people. "In our country it doesn't take much for allegations to come up against politicians. Someone made Rs 50 crore, someone's son made Rs 250 crore, (someone's) daughter made Rs 500 crore, (someone's) damaad (son-in-law) made Rs 1000 crore..." he said addressing the Indian community at the packed SAP Centre in San Jose, California.
Switching on to a question answer mode, he asked the audience "Is the country not disappointed?" The people replied "yes". Is there not anger against corruption," he asked. "Yes," people shouted.
Modi then asked, "I am standing before you. Tell me if there is any allegation against me." "No," people shouted. He then told the crowd that he is giving every minute of his life in the service of the nation and he would live and die for the country.
While Modi's reference to sons and daughters of politicians being corrupt is seen as a reference to culture of corruption in the country, the reference to son-in-law is seen as a barb at alleged land deals entered into by Vadra with the some state governments.
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