Rahul Gandhi’s 6 February Varanasi press conference in video

Delhi, 6 February 2012

Addressing a press conference in Varanasi today, Congress party’s national General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said that on one side BJP talks about fighting corruption while on the other side Gujarat Chief Minister is fighting to stop Lokpal. Rahul said, “they(the BJP) have a chief minister in Gujarat who is currently fighting to stop Lokpal.” BJP has yet not reacted to this yet.

How Rahul’s statement on Modi is not entirely true?

-It’s called Lokayukta when it comes to Gujarat. Lokpal is for centre, and not Modi, but the central government that halted Rajya Sabha without passing Lokpal bill is stopping Lokpal that way.
-Modi is fighting court case not exactly to stop Lokayukta. It is just by-product of his court battle. Actually the state government is fighting against the method of appointment of Lokayukta in the state adopted by the Governor.
-The core contention of Modi and his government is that the Governor can’t take such executive decision without consulting the state cabinet.
-If there’s one party government in state and other party government in centre, and centre appointed Governor starts giving executive orders then it can harm the federal system. This is the basic contention of the fight in Gujarat Lokayukta case.

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