Nitin Gadkari | Govt didn't think it important to consult us - Livemint

Mumbai: Seven years after losing to the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to capitalize on the spate of corruption scandals that have dented the image of the ruling coalition and its inability to control inflation to wrest control of the government in the next parliamentary elections, likely in 2014.

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Since the Congress doesn’t know where to hide its face on the issues of corruption and black money, it is making all kinds of baseless allegations to divert people’s attention from the real issues. As citizens of India, both Hazare and Ramdev have every right to fight against corruption and black money, and if someone is fighting for the cause, which is in the national interest, is it wrong to extend your support to such an agitation? However, we as a political party were not involved in either Hazare’s or Ramdev’s agitations. We only protested against the brutal police action against peaceful demonstrators, which was completely undemocratic.

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We are the major opposition party in Parliament, but the government never thought it important to consult us on such issues. They started a dialogue with civil society (groups) without consulting us; they accepted civil society’s demand without consulting us; and when their dialogue with civil society was on the verge of breakdown, they sent a letter to us and asked for our opinion to show that the government is creating a consensus on the issue. So we will not express our opinion on the Lokpal issue till the government makes its draft of the Lokpal Bill public.

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