Slamming the Congress party for trying to ‘weaken’ CAG by making it a multi-member body, BJP on Monday warned that any such move would only 'boomerang' on the party.
‘Whenever the Congress is in trouble or faces criticism, they try to weaken the institutions if they are constitutional bodies,’ senior BJP Leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters on Union Minister V Narayanasamy's remarks on CAG.
In an interview Narayanasamy had said a former CAG's suggestion for making the official auditor a multi-member body was under consideration. ‘Now it is very clear that the Congress is not able to digest the independent and autonomous CAG and is going with the move to make CAG a multi-member body,’ he said.
Naidu alleged that Congress had earlier tried to tarnish CAG image in the wake of observations damning UPA over wrongful allocation of coal blocks.
‘They did the same thing even in 1980s when CAG looked into Bofors contract and HDW Submarine deals. They quashed the locus standi and auditing methods. They even criticised CAG on 2G spectrum report and declared that there was no loss,’ he said. ‘Congress has forgotten that its stock crashed after it resorted to similar CAG bashing in 1989. Now the same thing will be repeated as and when elections are held,’ Naidu added and also said that BJP would be deliberating this in winter session.
‘Whenever the Congress is in trouble or faces criticism, they try to weaken the institutions if they are constitutional bodies,’ senior BJP Leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters on Union Minister V Narayanasamy's remarks on CAG.
In an interview Narayanasamy had said a former CAG's suggestion for making the official auditor a multi-member body was under consideration. ‘Now it is very clear that the Congress is not able to digest the independent and autonomous CAG and is going with the move to make CAG a multi-member body,’ he said.
Naidu alleged that Congress had earlier tried to tarnish CAG image in the wake of observations damning UPA over wrongful allocation of coal blocks.
‘They did the same thing even in 1980s when CAG looked into Bofors contract and HDW Submarine deals. They quashed the locus standi and auditing methods. They even criticised CAG on 2G spectrum report and declared that there was no loss,’ he said. ‘Congress has forgotten that its stock crashed after it resorted to similar CAG bashing in 1989. Now the same thing will be repeated as and when elections are held,’ Naidu added and also said that BJP would be deliberating this in winter session.