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Shameful opposition is targetting PM who is 100 percent above board: Sonia Gandhi | Congress party President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday accused the opposition of targeting Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh over the 2G spectrum scam, and described him as a man of integrity and a person '100 per cent above board'. "It is shameful that the person of the
Prime Minister's integrity is being targeted. Everybody knows the Prime Minister
is 100 per cent above board," Gandhi told reporters here when asked about the
attack of the opposition on Dr Singh. Gandhi further said that the opposition
should take a lesson from the results of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, when they
had targeted the Prime Minister then and he had won. She said the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) had to pay a heavy price for attempting to 'destroy the image' of
the Prime Minister. Further attacking the BJP for retaining Karnataka Chief Minister
B S Yeddyurappa, Gandhi said while her party had removed Natwar Singh, Shashi
Tharoor and Ashok Chavan over allegations of corruption, the BJP had failed to
take a similar step in the case of Yeddyurappa. "This is a matter which the party
concerned has to decide. As far as the Congress party is concerned, I think all
of you know, you have all seen how we deal with matters of corruption. Starting
from the issue of Volcker deal in which Natwar Singh was involved, we asked him
to resign immediately and we set up a judicial inquiry," said Gandhi. "Shashi
Tharoor, we asked him to resign...as soon as US President (Barack) Obama left,
we asked him (the Maharastra Chief Minister to resign. It was planned before,
but we did not want to execute it till the President left," she added. Gandhi
said the people of the country could now judge which of the two parties is sincere
in combating corruption. "When we compare the action that our party takes with
the action the other party takes, as you have mentioned the BJP in Karnataka,
then I think it is for the people to judge, and I am confident that they will
judge us more positively than other parties," she said. Describing corruption
as a disease, Gandhi said an effective mechanism has to be found to deal with
it. She also congratulated the Nitish Kumar-led BJP alliance in Bihar for its
clean sweep in Assembly polls and said that the verdict against the Congress indicated
that the 'party will have to start from scratch' in the state. "We did not have
much hope. We took a deliberate decision not to work in alliance with other parties,"
Gandhi said.
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