Digvijay continues his tirade against RSS, BJP

BANGALORE: All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has reiterated his charge that the BJP has employed Team Anna’s tirade against corruption as a camouflage to divert the nation’s attention on the Sangh Parivar’s involvement in various terror strikes, including the Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif and Samjhauta Express blasts.Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Singh, who was in the city on a private visit, said, “I have always been saying from day one that Team Anna’s agitation against corruption is a part of the design of the RSS and BJP to divert the attention of the nation.”Criticising BJP leader L K Advani, who has embarked on a Jan Chetna yatra against corruption, the Congress leader questioned the BJP leader for not taking any action against BJP’s former president Bangaru Laxman, who was caught accepting a bribe in the party office.The BJP also failed to register a case against Jaya Jaitley, one of the NDA alliance party’s leaders, when she was caught on tape striking an illegal arms deal in former Union Defence Minister’s (George Fernandes) house, Singh said.“The BJP’s track record on charges of corruption are pathetic,” he said. “We took action at the right time against our allied members who were involved in corrupt practices or scams,” Singh asserted.Asserting that AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have  taken all possible measures to check corruption in public life, the Congress leader said that the Right to Information Act was implemented during the UPA regime.The UPA Government also invoked stringent provisions to the Money Laundering Act, he added.Maun Vrat  TO STAY, CORE MEETING OUTMumbai/New Delhi: With his team under attack and facing questions of probity, Anna Hazare on Thursday said that he will extend his vow of silence as verbal communication with people is leaving him “very weak”. His decision to continue his maun vrat (vow of silence), which he started on October 16, means that he will not be able to attend the core committee meeting in the national capital on Saturday.