Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers H.N. Ananth Kumar has said that instead of advising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi should try to correct the “tainted” Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his Finance Minister K.M. Mani.
Mr. Kumar was speaking after inaugurating the district-level celebrations organised here on Thursday in connection with the first anniversary of the BJP government at the Centre.
“If the United Progressive Alliance government had been involved in 2G and 3G corruption cases, the United Democratic Front government in Kerala is busy with the bar bribery case,” he said. He called for a CBI investigation into the bar bribery case instead of a vigilance investigation. He said the Congress party was synonymous with corruption. Corruption cases were rampant whenever the Congress was in power, he added.
He alleged that both the UDF and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) were acting hand in glove over corruption cases. “The UDF and LDF are functioning as PDF, Power Dividing Front. Both of them help each other in hiding the corruption cases. There should be a change in power during the 2016 election,” he added.
“If the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was going in neutral gear, the AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi is going in reverse gear. They do not have any right to criticise Mr. Modi, who has been going in top gear,” Mr. Kumar said.
BJP district president A. Nagesh presided.
