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BJP taunts Congress as Bangaru Laxman resigns | Hours after Bangaru Laxman stepped down from the party’s
national executive committee, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday hit out at the ruling Congress party and charged it of indulging in tactics to save its
allegedlycorrupt ministers. BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain alleged that the
Congress was expert in saving the corrupt and awarding ministerial post to tainted
persons. “Bangaru Laxman has resigned from the national executive of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP). Our national chief Nitin Gadkari has accepted his resignation.
The Congress should do some introspection,” said Hussain. “The Congress, which
indulges in tactics to save the corrupt ministers, should not become a laughing
stock in the country. The country knows that many tainted persons are holding
ministerial positions. It is an expert in protecting the corrupt," he added. Former
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bangaru Laxman, who was sentenced to a
four-year jail term on charges of corruption, resigned from the party's national
executive committee earlier today. Laxman was sentenced to four years imprisonment
and fined Rs.one lakh in connection with the fictitious arms deal case on Saturday.
He was earlier convicted for accepting a bribe from a fake arms dealer in exchange
for recommending to the Defence Ministry a request to award the dealers a contract
to supply thermal binoculars to the army. Laxman, a former minister, was convicted
on the basis of an on camera sting operation at the BJP headquarters. He had to
quit as BJP president shortly after the sting operation was exposed.
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