Table Gowdas Correspondence With Cag On Bihar: Bjp

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The BJP yesterday demanded that the government table in Parliament all correspondence between the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda concerning the financial crisis in Bihar.

BJP vice-president KL Sharma said the correspondence contained the concern the CAG had expressed about the deteriorating financial situation in the state. It said that the situation is of total financial collapse in the state, Sharma said, pointing out that Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav had admitted to excess withdrawal from the states treasury.

A situation had emerged under which a financial emergency might have to be imposed on the state anytime, he said.

Sharma alleged that due to the drug scandal and fodder scandal Bihar has become a land of scandals. There is total chaos. One way to wriggle out Bihar from the present crisis was Laloo to quit, he said. In case Laloo refuses to quit, he should be dismissed, Sharma demanded.

He also demanded that the CBI should not delay in seeking permission to chargesheet Laloo Yadav in the fodder scam. Bihar Governor AR Kidwai had said that the CBI had yet not approached him for seeking the permission, he pointed out.

On Prime Minister IK Gujrals statement in the Rajya Sabha that he did not grant an interview to Kidwai as he did not want to be seen as interfering or taking interest in the fodder scam case, Sharma said what if the Governor met the home minister. Will interaction with the home minister be taken as interaction with the government, Sharma asked.

The BJP demanded that the government should bring a bill on electoral reforms this session itself and it should not take the Election Commissions Wednesday meeting with political parties as a plank to divert the issue. Sharma described the Commissions meeting as the one which achieved nothing. The government should tailor the bill on the recommendations of the Dinesh Goswami committee on electoral reforms. All the issues on which there was a political consensus should be taken up first, he argued. The government should at least set up the delimitation commission for delimitation of constituencies.