LK Advani today said his party and its allies would "force" the Centre during Parliament's upcoming winter session to make public names of all those who had stashed funds in Swiss bank accounts.
Keeping up the attack on the Congress-led UPA government, BJP leader LK Advani today said his party and its allies would "force" the Centre during Parliament's upcoming winter session to make public names of all those who had stashed funds in Swiss bank accounts.
Advani said BJP's previous initiatives on corruption and inflation, raised during the last two years, had got "massive support" of opposition parties and public.
"These had been discussed threadbare in Parliament also. But the third initiative of bringing back black money required to be taken to Indian masses and I have succeeded in doing so through my yatra as the common man now also has veered round the idea of bringing back the amount," Advani said during his ongoing 'Jan Chetana Yatra' here.
He also hoped that BJP's initiative against black money ropes in support from some "right-thinking" Congress leaders, the way late Prime Minister V P Singh had done on Bofors issue.
"Such right-thinking Congress leaders might also stand up and support our demand for bringing back the black money to India for using it for national development and initiate action against those who had stashed this income amassed with dishonest means," he said.
Meanwhile, a lone SAD(A) leader Rajinder Singh Fauji raised slogans against the yatra when Advani's cavalcade was passing by Mehtan village on the outskirts of Phagwara.
However, police did not allow any SAD(A) worker to come near the rally site.
Advani claimed that he had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sometime back about the issue of bringing the black money back to the country.
"I requested PM to contact Germany which had got details about 2,000 names who have stashed money in Liechtenstein Bank. Out of these, 500 belonged to Germany and others were of other countries, including India. These names must be told to countrymen," said Advani.
"This money could provide the required infrastructure and other facilities like 24 hour power supply, hospitals, roads, schools and other development projects to all the country's villages," the BJP leader said.
Advani said his yatras were good means of public contact and giving political message to public.
"My Som Nath-Ayodhya Yatra of 1990 could not be complete as I was arrested in Bihar. But my Jan Chetana Yatra, which enters its 34th day today, has evoked huge response," he added.
Advani also asked the government to disclose names if it had received names of any Members of Parliament who had reportedly deposited money in foreign banks.
"It has been reported that the government has received the names of three MPs who have money in foreign banks. The identity of these three MPs should be made known," Advani said, adding that it did not matter to which party these MPs belonged.
The BJP leader attacked the government on the black money issue, saying "mere statements of 'attempts are being made to get black money back' is not enough".
Advani also spoke on the the 'cash-for-votes' scam.
"There have been news reports that the CBI has told the court that it has no objection to bail being granted to those who had been arrested in this regard. This development has made me happy...," he remarked.
Advani reiterated that the three ex-BJP MPs arrested by the Delhi police in this case were whistleblowers.
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