GWALIOR: After Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's jibe on corruption, the BJP's Lok Sabha leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj also targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his recent claim that he was given an empty glass to fill in 2004. Addressing a Madhya Pradesh BJP workers' conclave here on Friday, Sushma Swaraj said: "The BJP-led NDA gave a full glass which has been emptied by rampant and repeated corruption by the UPA Centre.''
Two days after the PM's statement on getting an empty glass from the previous NDA government Modi took a dig at him on May 24 and said that the glass was not empty but full with corruption.
"The common man has gone bankrupt with inflation as UPA ministers kept filling their pockets and looting the government treasury,'' Swaraj argued. "The BJP-led NDA government did not need to restrict subsidized LPG for domestic consumption to six cylinders per family. What made the UPA to impose that restriction?''
Addressing the massive gathering of party workers, Swaraj argued that while the Pakistani army beheads our soldiers in UPA rule, the country "returns the headless bodies of our heroes to the mother who cannot even see the face of her son after he is dead.''
Bringing up last May 25's grisly Naxalite ambush on the Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh that left 30 persons dead, Swaraj said that the UPA was "passing the buck'' on the Raman Singh government. "The Maoist insurgency is a matter of internal security. If there has been a security lapse in Chhattisgarh, then what would the UPA say about the Gadchiroli Naxalite attack in Maharashtra that left 17 CRPF personnel dead in 2012? Whose security lapse was that incident.''
Swaraj alleged that the Union government is unclear on the policy to adopt to combat Naxalism. The home minister of the country did not even think it was necessary for him to return to the country even after the massacre of his party colleagues, she said.
"They accuse the BJP of not permitting the Parliament to run,'' she said. "What does the UPA expect, that their ministers should keep filling their deep pockets and we should keep quiet? Had the Union law minister and the railway minister resigned after the scams were unearthed, the Parliament would have continued and the Food Security Bill would have passed.''
Swaraj also argued that BJP-ruled states Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh implemented food security before the Centre. "Food security has never been the priority of the Congress. Chhattisgarh implemented it a good many years ago and now Shivraj Singh Chouhan will execute food security by distributing wheat at Re 1 per kg,'' she added.
Two days after the PM's statement on getting an empty glass from the previous NDA government Modi took a dig at him on May 24 and said that the glass was not empty but full with corruption.
"The common man has gone bankrupt with inflation as UPA ministers kept filling their pockets and looting the government treasury,'' Swaraj argued. "The BJP-led NDA government did not need to restrict subsidized LPG for domestic consumption to six cylinders per family. What made the UPA to impose that restriction?''
Addressing the massive gathering of party workers, Swaraj argued that while the Pakistani army beheads our soldiers in UPA rule, the country "returns the headless bodies of our heroes to the mother who cannot even see the face of her son after he is dead.''
Bringing up last May 25's grisly Naxalite ambush on the Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh that left 30 persons dead, Swaraj said that the UPA was "passing the buck'' on the Raman Singh government. "The Maoist insurgency is a matter of internal security. If there has been a security lapse in Chhattisgarh, then what would the UPA say about the Gadchiroli Naxalite attack in Maharashtra that left 17 CRPF personnel dead in 2012? Whose security lapse was that incident.''
Swaraj alleged that the Union government is unclear on the policy to adopt to combat Naxalism. The home minister of the country did not even think it was necessary for him to return to the country even after the massacre of his party colleagues, she said.
"They accuse the BJP of not permitting the Parliament to run,'' she said. "What does the UPA expect, that their ministers should keep filling their deep pockets and we should keep quiet? Had the Union law minister and the railway minister resigned after the scams were unearthed, the Parliament would have continued and the Food Security Bill would have passed.''
Swaraj also argued that BJP-ruled states Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh implemented food security before the Centre. "Food security has never been the priority of the Congress. Chhattisgarh implemented it a good many years ago and now Shivraj Singh Chouhan will execute food security by distributing wheat at Re 1 per kg,'' she added.
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