Kolkata, April 11: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today described as “meaningless utterances” the comments by JD-S leader H D Kumaraswamy that if Mahatma Gandhi were alive today, he would either fall prey to corruption or shun politics itself.
“No I will not comment. It is a meaningless utterance and I will not give reaction to it,” Mukherjee said at a meet-the-press programme here when asked for his observation.
Kumaraswamy had made these remarks yesterday while talking to reporters in Karnataka’s Hubli.
Reflecting upon today’s political scenario in the country, the JD-S Karnataka unit president had said, “If Mahatma Gandhi was alive today, he would have either fallen prey to corruption or would have shunned politics itself.”
Kumaraswamy, who has been levelling corruption charges against ruling BJP in Karnataka also added that it was “impossible to practise politics without corruption.
—–PTi