NEW DELHI: Keeping up the pressure on railway minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad, a delegation of Opposition NDA on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded that he be sacked from the Cabinet in the wake of the alleged "land-for-jobs" scam that came to light after an expose telecast by a private TV channel.
Taking a dig at Prasad, who has been credited for his "management skills" for turning around the Indian Railways into a profit-making enterprise, BJP leader Muqhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the scam has exposed that the "management guru has turned into a corruption guru".
The NDA leaders claimed to have documentary evidence showing that people who got jobs in the railways had transferred their land to close family members of Prasad. They also accused the railway minister of giving jobs to those who had deposed in his favour earlier in the fodder scam.
Armed with documentary evidence like registration certificates of land that has reportedly been transferred to the names of Lalu Prasad's family members, the NDA members demanded an inquiry into the scam.
The delegation, comprising BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav and his colleagues Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Shivanand Tiwari, said they submitted "proof" relating to the scam to the PM.
The PM, according to Naqvi and Yadav, assured the delegation that he would "look into" the matter. The leaders claimed that the documents proved the involvement of Prasad, Union ministers Prem Chand Gupta, Kanti Singh and Raghunath Jha in the scam. Hitting out at the UPA government over the issue, Naqvi said, "First we had the cash-for-vote scam and now land-for-job. These incidents signify the height of corruption."
"The Prime Minister should not maintain silence on the issue as this sends a wrong message that he is also hand-in-glove," he said, in an attempt to rope in Manmohan Singh into the issue.
Source : Times Of India
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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