Cash-for-vote: NDA protests in Par complex, targets PM

New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) The NDA on Thursday staged a
protest in Indian Parliament complex demanding Prime
Minister's resignation over the cash-for-vote scam after BJP
leader L K Advani was not allowed to speak in Lok Sabha on the
alleged "injustice" meted out to two former party MPs arrested
in the case.
Senior BJP leaders, including Advani, Sushma Swaraj
and Arun Jaitley, along with those of NDA partners gathered
around the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Parliament complex
and raised slogans against the Government on the cash-for-vote
scam.
Demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, the leaders including Jaswant Singh, Rajnath Singh and
JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav accused the Congress-led UPA
government of being "corrupt".
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj
alleged that the cash-for-vote case was the biggest scam of
the present government.
She claimed that those who "exposed the UPA for having
secured the trust vote after buying votes of MPs" were still
sitting in power, but those who exposed their "corrupt deeds"
were put in jail.
"While those who exposed this government by showing
the notes are today behind bars, the person whose government
was saved is still the Prime Minister," she told reporters
outside Parliament.
Swaraj said BJP wanted to raise the matter of arrest of
two of its former MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagore
yesterday, but because of the bomb blast it could not do so.
"However, when our senior leader L K Advani gave a notice
for suspension of Question Hour today, he was not allowed to
speak. When he started speaking in the din, directions were
given that nothing would go on record and his mike was shut."
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