“CM has gifted away 20% of GSPC stake in KG basin to two companies”
After targeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president Nitin Gadkari, Arvind Kejriwal has now assailed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of granting undue favours to some corporate companies.
At a crowded news conference here on Tuesday, the chief of the newly launched Aam Aadmi Party charged the Gujarat government with ‘gifting away’ a gas exploration project to Geo Global Resources, which led to a windfall gain of Rs. 20,000 crore to the firm.
Maintaining that the impression of Mr. Modi being honest was wrong, the AAP chief said, “He has gifted away 20% of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation’s stake in the Krishna-Godavari Basin to two companies, Geo Global and Jubilant Enpro Private limited.”
However, the BJP refuted the charge, saying it was “factually baseless, motivated and mischievous.”
On adjournment of Parliament over the issue, BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “The repeated adjournment initiated by the Congress in both Houses is factually baseless and motivated. The GSPC already circulated the Carried Interest Agreement with Geo Global Resources in 2010 itself.”
He said the GSPC had also written five letters to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, requesting modification of the production-sharing contract, but it had not been done for the last more than two years.
“Therefore, the Ministry is at fault and there has been no production till date from the gas block, nor even a single farthing paid,” Mr. Prasad said.
GSPC denies charges
Separately, Tapan Ray, GSPC managing director, has written to the Editor of the Tehelka magazine, which carried the story, terming all allegations against it baseless and without complete appraisal of facts.
Keywords: social activist Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party, Narendra Modi, Gujarat Assembly polls, Assembly elections 2012
Corruption in India has become a hydra-headed monster. No one seems immune
to it. Having said this, two things need to be said- one, that allegations ought not
to be made without definite proof, and two, Mr. Kejriwal needs to focus his
energies on the root of corruption in the centre, instead of making enemies all
over India. In the real world, unfortunately, one needs friends. Maybe he ought to
emulate Mr. Seshan who was quiet until he became the CEC and then became a
thorn in the flesh to all politicians. Similarly, crying foul is not going to change the
system. One needs to educate our masses as to their rights and duties, and
enthuse them to fight corruption. This is going to be a very slow and frustrating
process. Making allegations and indulging in sensationalism is not going to help.
Mr. Kejriwal needs to learn how to play the game. Having said this, it is still inspiring that in our country we do have the beginnings of a grassroots movement against corruption.
Atleast there is one person like Arvind kejriwal who cna point out the unfair money grabbing by politicians. This has to become a big movement in India. Indian people always have a slave mentality in which they don't have any guts to question the politicians who are eating off the people's hard earned tax money. Some people don't even realise that they are paying for the lavish luxury life of the politicians.
Kejriwal is going crazy day by day.
I support his goal of corruption free India but I think he should be modest in his speech. He should learn from Jaya Prakash Narayan, Leader of LokSatta party (AP) who also shares the same ideals of Kejriwal/Hazare but is proceeding in the right way unlike Kejri. If Kejriwal continues this, he may lose his credibility and the goals of AamAdmi can get jeopardized.
Looks like no political party is clean. Modi needs to clarify and come out clean.
We need to hang corrupt people.Death penalty for corruption.
We claim our country is rich in so many things.But we do not follow any of the good things.
Mr. Kejriwal must focus on one issue at a time and follow through to the end instead of running from pillar to post like a loose cannon. He is increasingly being seen as a publicity hound and not serious about changing the system.
In this instance, by taking on Narendra Modi just before the Gujrat elections, he has left himself open to the suspicion that he might be acting at the behest of the Congress.
The people of India now demand the resignation of Mr Clean Mr.development
Modi to resign.BJP and their parivars are known for their self trumpeting slogan like INDIA SHINING during their rule 1999-2004.Now they talking of develpoment of Gujarath where 55% of the women are malnutrionied lot of unemployment etc
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