Bangalore. June 11 : Senior Congress leader and Union Minister for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Ashwani Kumar today alleged that Baba Ramdev’s agitation against corruption and blackmoney was a plot by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to defame the image of Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
”It was a carefully thought political plot of BJP. The words of Baba Ramdev was not his own but that of BJP,” he told reporters here.
After the defeat in the recently held elections to the five Assemblies, the BJP had become ”discredited, discarded, and dejected and hence creating such plots to tarnish the image of the UPA government” he said, adding ”but I am sure the communal party would not succeed and the people would give befitting reply in the coming days.” He said when the UPA goverment and Congress were committed to bring in Lok Pal bill in the next Parliament session where was the necessity for agitation and satyagrahas that too by a yoga guru.
”It was Congress Supremo Sonia Gandhi who sought resignation of her party ministers and MPs to tender resignation as soon as scames were exposed though they were not convicted. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed his cabinet colleagues to declare their assets. Congress has remained stern in fighting against corrutpion,” ”BJP’s attempt to salvinise the UPA and Congress is a political Joke and suitable reply will be given,” he added.