Charge-sheet LK Advani in cash-for-vote scam: Kalyan Singh

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh today said BJP leader LK Advani should be charge-sheeted in the cash-for-vote scam and an FIR lodged against him. Both Advani and his former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni were involved in the scam, he alleged adding the drama of sting operation was only a cover-up.

Demanding chargesheeting of Advani in the cash-for-vote scam, Singh said an FIR should also be lodged against him. The BJP was "neck-deep in corruption" and had no moral right to raise the issue, Singh said questioning Advani's rath yatra on the issue of graft.

He said the BJP also had no moral right to speak on terrorism citing various militant strikes during the NDA rule. Kalyan Singh said the campaign of his newly-formed Jankranti Party for upcoming assembly election in Uttar Pradesh would formally begin from Ayodhya after "darshan of the Ram Lala".

After names of all the candidates are announced, they would go to Ayodhya and have "darshan" of the Ram Lala before the election campaign of the party would be launched, he said.

The party, which today released its second list of 51 candidates after its earlier list of 108 names, would contest all the 403 seats on its own, the former BJP leader said. He opposed separate quota for backward Muslims saying it was against the Constitution. "We want justice for all but appeasement of none," he said. Singh, however, reitereated the demand for quota within quota for women belonging to backwards, dalits, SCs and STs.