UPA allies equally responsible for corruption, inflation: BJP

Coalition partners in the UPA government are as much responsible for corruption and inflation in the country as the Congress party itself, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said today.

"They (allies) cannot befool the masses by following a dual policy of opposing the programmes of the UPA government in Kolkata or Mumbai and supporting it in New Delhi," he said here.

They were equally responsible for corruption and inflation in the country as the Congress itself, Gadkari said.

They must own the responsibility or detach themselves from the government, the BJP leader said.

Gadkari asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to make public what he said "names of 700-odd account holders who have deposited black money in foreign banks."

Attributing frequent spurt in petrol prices to increasing prosperity in the country by the Prime Minister was nothing but a cruel joke, Gadkari said.

The factual situation was that poverty was on the increase, he said.

If the government could not control the affairs of the country, it should call it a day and quit, Gadkari said.