"If Mamata Banerjee thinks that the UPA is responsible for price rise and corruption, she has to explain why she is sitting in the government. If she has to fight these issues, let her quit the government in Delhi and launch a campaign in Bengal," BJP chief Nitin Gadkari said at a party rally.
Senior BJP leader LK Advani, without directly naming Banerjee or her party, said, "How can faith be reposed on someone who goes with one today and with another tomorrow?"
Claiming that corruption and price rise were rampant under the UPA regime, Gadkari said that the Congress was responsible for "looting the country".
He said Suresh Kalmadi, who as chairman of the Organising Committee when the Rs 70,000-crore CWG scam was unearthed, was being protected by a "godfather and godmother".
Gadkari claimed the 'godfather' of A Raja, the former telecom minister who is facing probe in the Rs1.76-crore second-generation mobile telephony spectrum scam, was "looting the country".
He claimed that Rs 60,000 crore of black money was stashed away in foreign banks. "Why isn't the government publishing the names of those holding the money? (Union finance minister) Pranab Mukherjee has said in an affidavit in Supreme Court that publishing the names would be against the interest of the country. Actually, it will be against the interest of the Congress."