Hours after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh threw its weight behind the beleaguered BJP president, Nitin Gadkari, the party’s brass, who met here on Friday night, announced unambiguously that the party stood rock solid behind him and the charges against him were ‘baseless and untrue’.
Senior leaders, including L.K. Advani, met to take stock of the political fallout of the allegations levelled against Mr. Gadkari. The meeting said the charges were motivated and should be treated with the contempt they deserved.
Earlier, in a formal statement — an unusual move when the BJP president is in the middle of a political storm triggered by allegations of irregularities and misdemeanour by companies in which he has stakes — the RSS trained its guns on sections of the media’ and ‘some selfish elements’ for politicising the discourse on corruption. The reference to selfish elements is directed at Mr. Gadkari’s detractors within the BJP.
According to sources, the Sangh is of the view that though the charges against Mr. Gadkari would undermine the BJP’s fight against the Congress on the plank of corruption, the Nagpur boy, who was propped up as party president by the RSS, is the best bet at the moment.
The Sangh is also believed to have factored in the campaign by influential leaders within the BJP, who have prime ministerial ambitions, to oust Mr. Gadkari, and sent a clear message that the BJP chief continued to enjoy its confidence.
BJP makes many mistakes in its strategy and its strategic decisions taking. Every a time they failed at a time/ level where they would have won over the situation. But ultimately it results to Advantage Congress.
Similar mistake they are making by defending Gadkari and to his post. Here also congress will not miss the opportunity to tarnish BJP image. To me and Mr. Kejariwal and team, It is proved beyond our doubts that BJP is not clean and does not possess noble characteristics hence they are not in power and will never get power to rule in near future
I feel Nitin Gadkari and his company has not followed the Business ethics and it cannot be called a corruption. In India it is true of most Private companies. They must be filing all the returns. What was the Corporate affairs Minsitry doing all these days? I feel it is a reflection on the system and everyone is taking advantage of it. Let the screws be tightened right from incorporation with proper proof and not only that subsequent returns that are filed need to be monitored. If one goes after all the private companies plethora of such cases would come up. I may be wrong but heart of heart I feel I may be right too.
One needs to remember that Gadkari is neither a MP nor holding any
position of authority. Therefore all these noise about his resignation
is motivated by his opponents. The media is also playing its role as it
always does to fish in troubled water. Unless Congress has doled out
from their billions of looted money to prevent their white wash, one can
not understand why media is targeting only BJP leaving aside record mega
scams of Congress , and others.
If Nitin is not faulty then a valid proof is required here.It is not
enough to simply say that we are standing behind him and he is not
responsible for this scam is baseless. Either the BJP have to show a
valid proof or fire him, to make a success in upcoming election. The BJP
agenda in upcoming election is to talk about the scam which is done by ruling party in center or their ally will surely be affected by it.
Its time to think about the situation and upcoming election.
Is this not a Risky thing for BJP, Because if Gadkari is found to be really corrupt during the probe, Won't it be very embarassing for not only the BJP but also the RSS.
Whatever the main Opposition Party does, it should think long and hard
before vacating its role as the main Opposition, particularly so close
to important and impending elections. Citizens need to know whom to vote
for, and for what?
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