BJPs bid to topple government

PUDUCHERRY: Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Prime Minister’s Office V Narayanasamy has accused the BJP of attempting to topple the Congress government at the Center by capitalising on  forums and gurus and swamis, quoting as an example Baba Ramdev. Certain gurus/swamis under the guise of fast were trying to destabilise the integrity of the country and BJP trying to gain maximum mileage out of the same,”  he said.  Briefing journalists at a press meet on Sunday, he said members of the BJP, RSS, Bajrang Dal and other Hindu fundamentalist organisations who took part in the fast, were much more in number than the supporters of  Ramdev who were but a handful. He alleged that the Baba had nexus with black money barons and claimed that the ‘five star facilities’ at the venue was arranged with their black money.  The fast by Baba Ramdev against black money was questionable, he said.   He said that during the seven-year tenure of the BJP government led by A B Vajpayee, there was no move to bring out black money, but now PM Manmohan Singh was taking steps in this regard. He said the PM was taking all steps to introduce the Lokpal Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament. Already, the government had taken steps by taking action on several recommendations of the Administrative Reforms Commission for setting up Lok Ayuktas in each state, special court to deal with corruption and adjudication of the case within one year. He said that it is the duty of the  home minister to  uphold  law and order and the arrest was done to protect law and order in Delhi.  He refuted Baba Ramdev’s charge against AICC president Sonia Gandhi and said that he had no locus standi to do so.