New Delhi : Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday came down heavily upon the Congress-led UPA government over the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society and Commonwealth Games (CWG) scams.
?Since Day 1 of the UPA regime, every day a new scam surfaces. Take the period between monsoon and winter seasons of the Parliament?.2G scam, CWG scam, and now Adarsh scam?it seems there is corruption in all government projects,? Swaraj said at the Parliament.
?There is corruption in the flagship programmes of the government. I would like the UPA to take up the ongoing corruption issues immediately and take strict action against them,? Swaraj said.
?They (UPA) always try to silence us, whenever we try to unmask them, but we will continue to raise our voices against the ruling government until they come clean of all corruption,? the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said.
Meanwhile, barely had the Obamas left India, the ruling Congress party cracked its whip on corruption ahead of the winter session of Parliament accepting the resignation of Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan over the Kargil war widows’ housing scam.
The acceptance of the resignation will make it easier for the Congress to defend themselves in the winter session of Parliament.
Also, Suresh Kalmadi, the Congress MP and Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief, was fired from the post of a secretary in the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP), for his alleged role in the Commonwealth Games scam.
Sucked into the controversy over allotment of flats in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society meant for Kargil War heroes’ families to a clutch of bureaucrats and politicians in Mumbai, Ashok Chavan had offered to resign from his post before Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi earlier, but the decision was kept a bay in view of the visit of the US President.
The 30-storey apartment, housing many top level defence officials, was built on a disputed army land at Colaba and the flats meant for the families of the Kargil martyrs were alloted to top defence officials and kins of politicians.