NDA convenor Sharad Yadav angry with the BJP for its flip-flop on Rs 1.86 lakh crore coalgate scam busted by the CAG.
He is rather seething with anger and other allies are also upset.
Not
only the entire Monsoon session of Parliament was a wash out but it
clearly left the Opposition divided and allies of the NDA find
themselves in the lurch.
Encouraged by divisions within
the Opposition, the UPA and its coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal have rejected en-masse canceling coal blocks.
The
Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) would make its recommendations after
scrutinising 58 coal blocks allotted during the period of 2006-09 when
Dr Manmohan Singh was holding the charge of the Coal Ministry.
The
recommendations of the IMG will go to Coal Minister who will act
according to the rules and procedures or political compulsions. The PMO
has also
made it clear that only defaulters and non-performers would be punished.
The CBI will
look into fake documents, cheating etc.
So where does BJP stands here ?
NDA
convenor Sharad Yadav is
understood to have taken the BJP leaders to task at the last meeting of
the NDA for damaging the cause of the Opposition unity on coalgate. “We
successfully ensured Bharat Bandh twice on price rise and corruption
issues in
the past. The Left, SP, BSP and others joined the anti-UPA protest. We
have
withered away the gains of last two years on Opposition unity,” Yadav
painfully
told the meeting.
It
was perhaps due to such
plain speaking that Advani and Sushma Swaraj tried to find a way at the
fag end of the session by asking for cancellation of coal block and
inquiry. But it was too late in the day as the UPA didn't want the
Opposition to unite again.
It quickly acted, ensured that CBI conducts some raids, strong statements are issued and parliament gets adjourned sine-die.
While
earlier, the task of uniting the Opposition parties was handed over to
Sharad Yadav. This time, it was L K Advani who took the command of
coalgate tirade against the UPA
in his own hands from day one. Even Nitin Gadkari decided to make a 22-day holiday trip to Canada. The BJP stands isolated with Samajwadi Party going the other way and the Left and TDP joining it on Coalgate.
“The coalgate revived the third front rather than uniting the entire all anti-UPA forces" said a pained Sharad Yadav.
Incidentally, a scared BJP did not even allow the holding of the NDA core committee meeting either.
