A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has demanded the immediate recall of Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, saying he has violated the constitution.

Former BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu said here yesterday that the governor went out of the way to deny the Central Bureau of Investigation permission to prosecute former chief minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Housing Society scam.

“The governor has violated principles of constitution. He has no right to be in that post. He should be recalled immediately,” Naidu said.

He criticised the Maharashtra cabinet for rejecting the J A Patil Judicial Commission report on the scam and absolving its own ministers. “Then why did you appoint the commission,” he asked.

Referring to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s statement that graft is bleeding India, the BJP leader wanted to know who was responsible.

He said it was the same Congress which tried to cover up the Shunglu Committee report on irregularities in organising the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

Naidu said Gandhi’s remarks at the FICCI conference reflected the speech of an opposition leader.

“He seems to have forgotten that his party is in power for the last 10 years. Earlier it was in power for 50 years. Whatever he is preaching now, his party did not practice.”

On Gandhi’s remark that without growth, the country can’t eliminate poverty, Naidu said the Congress was responsible for bringing down the growth.

“He said they did not hit the six in the recent assembly elections in four states. Forget about hitting the six, they were clean bowled and lost the series,” the BJP leader said, using cricket terminology.

Naidu said some cosmetic changes and some face-lifts by making some ministers resign will not help the Congress.

“People are considering Congress as a betrayer, as a non-performer, as insensitive and as an arrogant party, that is why they have rejected it in four assembly elections,” he said.

 

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