Government has lost credibility, says BJP

Friday, September 09, 2011: BJP today said the Government has lost its credibility and that revulsion has set-in among the people against the Congress-led UPA.

Giving an assessment of the just-concluded Monsoon Session of Paliament, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, “The Government is at war with its own self,” while Sushma Swaraj said differences between the Congress and Government came to the fore during the session.

 

“I have not seen the Government lose its credibility in one single Session of Parliament. When the Session started, the Government had a lot of arrogance, but there was bitterness amongst the senior people in the Government by the time the Session ended,” said Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley.

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj told reporters that it was the Government which was responsible for stalling of Parliament, not the opposition.

She said Government was divided in handling Anna Hazare’s agitation, even as differences between the Congress and the Government came to the fore. There was lack of unanimity within the Government, while the opposition stood unitedly, she said.

Swaraj claimed while one section within the Government wanted to quell Hazare’s agitation by using force, another section wanted to resolve it peacefully through negotiation and discussion.

Jaitley said that revulsion among the people against the UPA Government was visible at the RML Hospital where those injured in the Delhi High Court blast were admitted, claiming this was an indication of how it had “lost its credibility and its popularity was very low”.

The BJP leader also claimed that many Congress leaders congratulated him on his statements made during the Hazare agitation that the Prime Minister was taking too much advice from advocates.