Hitting back at the BJP, the Congress on Wednesday dismissed as “absolute cacophony” its demand for Home Minister P Chidambaram’s resignation, contending that the Finance Ministry note on the 2G issue cannot have any effect of guilt.
“It is absolute cacophony. (They are creating) an ambience of instability. How can a Ministry note have an effect on guilt,” party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.
He claimed that the BJP was “passing judgement” on the Home Minister by using verbatim summary of Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy’s arguments in the Supreme Court.
Mr. Singhvi said that the reasons for such attacks was the “festering frustration” of the BJP after it lost power in May 2004 and has been out of office since then.
“BJP has never digested the loss of power. Coming down from heights of illusion and delights of India Shining, they have never been able to digest the fact that they have lost power,” he said alleging that the Opposition party has made number of unsuccessful attempts since then to unseat the UPA “in its naked lust of power and unprincipled politics”.
Mr. Singhvi said BJP’s problems were initially the consequence of the “vaulting ambition of one man and then subsequently the collective ambition of several contenders to the throne”.
