Coal: BJP plans motion against UPA government

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to move privilege motion against the UPA government at the Centre for its tirade against the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) which exposed the irregularities in the allotment of coal mines to private players.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said that the party was seriously examining whether the criticism of CAG by a few ministers would amount to breach of privilege.

“The party strongly felt that the CAG was a constitutional body and criticising it in public was like questioning its authority. We are not going to keep quit. We will confront the government. The government should have said  whatever it had to say on the CAG report on coal allocation in the Parliament but not in public,” Naidu said.

Naidu also demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

“Both the UPA led government and PM have lost the moral authority to continue in office following CAG’s report. Both should resign and pave way for elections,” he said.

Stating that corruption, anarchy and price rise had reached its peak in the Union government Naidu said,  “The nation’s wealth is being looted systematically and looters are being protected. These are not the allegations of opposition parties but the revelations of  institutions like CAG, CVD and judiciary.”

He also predicted NDA’s victory in the next elections. “The Congress and UPA will be routed in the next elections as people are fed up with its misrule,” he said.

On northeast exodus

Referring to the Assam violence and subsequent exodus of northeastern people from Bangalore and other places, Naidu said that it was the result of ‘vote bank politics’ of the Congress and UPA government.

“The lack of timely action by the UPA government in Assam after the eruption of ethnic violence and also the Maharashtra government to initiate action against those resorted to violence protesting Assam development had led to panic among northeastern people resulting in their exodus,” he asserted.

He rubbished KPCC president G Parameshwar’s remark against the RSS and termed it as a ‘cheap political allegation’. “If you continue to make such allegations it will boomerang,” said Naidu.