BJP is going to sue false rumour makers and a newspaper for falsely accusing
Ananth Kumar for any connection between Radia and Kumar. Unabashed Congress
keeps on fabricating stories and spreading rumours through its corrupt network
in face of the bad publicity of Man Mohan Singh' team for successive huge scams.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/306196/BJP-to-sue-Radia's-ex-TV-channel-for-slander.html
R. Singh
BJP to sue Radia's ex, TV channel for slander
December 25, 2010 7:30:50 AM
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The Opposition BJP on Friday threatened legal action against a former aide of
Nira Radia, whose claims about "close links" between the corporate lobbyist and
BJP leaders were prominently carried by an English news channel. The party would
also start legal action against the TV channel for broadcasting allegations by a
person who had "spent two years in jail and has a personal score to settle".
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley told newspersons here on
Friday evening, "Merely because someone else is making these allegation does not
dilute the channel's responsibility… It treated as gospel truth the allegations
against prominent BJP leaders (which were) made by someone who not only spent
two years in jail but is close to a senior Congress member and has a personal
score to settle."
Radia's close aide Rao Dheeraj Singh, who was in jail for two years after she
accused him of kidnapping her son, told news channel Headlines Today that the
lobbyist got hugely benefited out of her close links with BJP leader Ananth
Kumar (then Civil Aviation Minister).
He had also accused Ananth of facilitating a Eurocopter deal with the BJP
Governments in Karnataka and Maharashtra in 1998, in which Radia was also
involved. In an apparent reference to Nitin Gadkari (now BJP chief), Singh
claimed the lobbyist also met a BJP leader in Nagpur to facilitate the deal.
"There was no BJP or NDA Government in the two States during the period
mentioned by Singh. And Gadkari was Leader of the Opposition in the legislative
council (from where he could not have influenced the State Government's decision
on purchase of helicopters)," Jaitley said, adding that Gadkai did not even know
Radia before the news about her phones being tapped broke out.
On Singh's claims about the BJP Government "allotting a huge piece of land" to
Radia's trust in Vasant Kunj in 2002 and LK Advani attending the foundation
stone-laying ceremony, the BJP replied that Advani had never attended the said
programme.
"The only function he attended in Vasant Kunj in 2002 was that of the trust run
by Pejawar Swami, who has himself clarified that the land was allotted to his
trust by the United Front Government," Jaitley claimed.
He also disputed Singh's claim that Ananth Kumar used to leak Cabinet papers to
Radia who, in turn, would pass these on to her clients. "Which Cabinet papers
and relating to which issue? We all are oblivious of it," Jaitley asked. He also
strongly rejected the allegation that Ananth Kumar had any bank account in
Zurich.
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