Bad, corrupt governance of Congress has ruined the country: Nitin Gadkari

BJP president Nitin Gadkari Friday alleged that wrong economic policies and "bad and corrupt" governance of Congress had ruined the country.

"I am saying this with pain...if any party has ruined the country, the weavers, the farmers and the labourers, it is Congress," he said.

"Wrong economic policies and bad and corrupt governance of the Congress party is the basic reason for the ruin of the country," he said, addressing a public meeting in support of the hunger strike of BJP's national secretary Muralidhar Rao over weavers' problems in Hyderabad.

Referring to the FIR filed by Karnataka Lok Ayukta against External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, Gadkari sought to know from the Congress leadership, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi, why they had adopted "double standard" over demands of dropping Krishna from the cabinet.

"After the Lok Ayukta report against former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, Congress leaders had asked me why BJP was not seeking his resignation. Despite the report being controversial, Yeddyurappa was removed," he said.

Gadkari claimed that BJP and NDA would come to power in all the states and at the Centre in the next elections.

Praising Rao's hunger strike, Gadkari promised that if the BJP came to power, it would waive weavers' loans, provide them with free electricity, and extend all the facilities to them which the BPL cardholders get.

"I will meet the PM over the weavers problems," Gadkari said.

The BJP chief later offered lemon juice to Rao and others to mark the end of the three-day fast.