BJP using shoulders of Hazare, Ramdev to garner power: Cong

Rejecting the demand for resignation of Singh, party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi alleged that the anti-government campaign showed the "growing frustration" in the BJP over the emergence of a new leadership in the Congress, making a reference to Rahul Gandhi.

"BJP never does politics on its own strength. It always requires the shoulders of others...Now they are feeling the need of Anna Hazare and Ramdev and using their shoulders in the game of power", party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters.

Accusing the opposition party of using anti-corruption plank to capture power, Dwivedi said the BJP has "run out of patience" after losing power at the Centre in 2004, which only grew by 2009 when UPA again formed the government.

Replying to questions regarding BJP's demand for the Prime Minister's resignation, Dwivedi said,"Prime Minister's resignation is not a joke. It does not happen like that".

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal expresed confidence that if a debate took place in Parliament the government will be able to turn the table on the Opposition.

"We will blow the report to smithereens," said another Union Minister speaking separately on the condition of anonymity maintaining that there are stark differences between the draft report and the final report of the CAG adding "one institution should not run down the other. Every institution has its set jurisdictions, to which they should confine".

Earlier in the day, Congress President Sonia Gandhi told a group of party MPs to counter the Opposition aggressively and not to be on the defensive. "We had done no wrong. We need not be defensive on it," Gandhi is learnt to have told the MPs, who met her in the morning after both Houses of were adjourned for the first time.(MORE)