BJP suspends Azad for taking on Jaitley
NEW DELHI: Dec 24, 2015, DHNS
Cricketer-turned-MP says bad for party, not me
Cracking the whip on dissenters, the BJP on Wednesday suspended cricketer-turned-MP Kirti Azad for indulging in anti-party activities by dragging Finance Minister Arun Jaitley into the Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) corruption case.
In a one-line statement issued to the media by general-secretary Arun Singh, the party stated that Azad has been suspended with immediate effect.
The order stated: “Over the past few months, you have breached party discipline and indulged in anti-party activities. Inside and outside Parliament, you conducted yourself in a manner that amounts to indiscipline and anti-party activities. You made several statements to carry out a false propaganda. So the parliamentary board has suspended you from the party membership.”
The BJP seems to have also taken into account statements made by Azad when the Lalit Modi controversy broke out.
The Darbhanga MP had tweeted that an insider was leaking information about External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s reported support to the disgraced former IPL commissioner when he was trying to seek travel documents in the UK. Reacting to the suspension order, Azad said in Ahmedabad: “I did not say anything against anyone personally. What anti-party activity have I done? I have been raising this issue for the last 9 years, they should have taken cognisance then itself.”
He also denied teaming up with the Aam Aadmi Party or the Congress to raise the DDCA issue. When asked about his next move, Azad said “wait and watch” and added that “suspension is bad for the party, not me.”
The party cracked the whip a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended Jaitley and said the finance minister would come out clean in the same manner as patriarch L K Advani had in the Hawala case.
The BJP decided to take action as party chief Amit Shah had warned Azad about a week ago not to publicly hit out at his old rival Jaitley, but he went ahead and held a press conference on Sunday revealing details of corruption in the construction of the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium.
Party leaders are now wondering whether action will be initiated against other dissenters, especially Shatrughan Sinha, who attacked the party leadership for the Bihar poll debacle. Earlier in the day, Sinha, who hailed Azad as “hero of the day,” suggested that Jaitley should resign and emerge clean like Advani. “As advised by our dashing dynamic PM, our FM cud follow Advaniji’s eg & come clean (sic),” Sinha tweeted.
In a one-line statement issued to the media by general-secretary Arun Singh, the party stated that Azad has been suspended with immediate effect.
The order stated: “Over the past few months, you have breached party discipline and indulged in anti-party activities. Inside and outside Parliament, you conducted yourself in a manner that amounts to indiscipline and anti-party activities. You made several statements to carry out a false propaganda. So the parliamentary board has suspended you from the party membership.”
The BJP seems to have also taken into account statements made by Azad when the Lalit Modi controversy broke out.
The Darbhanga MP had tweeted that an insider was leaking information about External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s reported support to the disgraced former IPL commissioner when he was trying to seek travel documents in the UK. Reacting to the suspension order, Azad said in Ahmedabad: “I did not say anything against anyone personally. What anti-party activity have I done? I have been raising this issue for the last 9 years, they should have taken cognisance then itself.”
He also denied teaming up with the Aam Aadmi Party or the Congress to raise the DDCA issue. When asked about his next move, Azad said “wait and watch” and added that “suspension is bad for the party, not me.”
The party cracked the whip a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended Jaitley and said the finance minister would come out clean in the same manner as patriarch L K Advani had in the Hawala case.
The BJP decided to take action as party chief Amit Shah had warned Azad about a week ago not to publicly hit out at his old rival Jaitley, but he went ahead and held a press conference on Sunday revealing details of corruption in the construction of the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium.
Party leaders are now wondering whether action will be initiated against other dissenters, especially Shatrughan Sinha, who attacked the party leadership for the Bihar poll debacle. Earlier in the day, Sinha, who hailed Azad as “hero of the day,” suggested that Jaitley should resign and emerge clean like Advani. “As advised by our dashing dynamic PM, our FM cud follow Advaniji’s eg & come clean (sic),” Sinha tweeted.
No comments:
Post a Comment