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Likening the opposition campaign against the allocation of coal blocks to the Bofors controversy against the Rajiv Gandhi government in the late eighties,AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday said that the Bofors allegations could never be proved by the non-Congress government which later came to power at the Centre.
There was a campaign after the CAG report on Bofors against Rajiv Gandhi,now also there is a similar pattern, Singh said,adding that the BJP was trying to make an issue out of nothing.
He said former CAG T N Chaturvedi,who had submitted the report on Bofors,later went on to become a Rajya Sabha member of the BJP. Perhaps,the present CAG also wanted to follow in his footsteps,he said.
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad,who was also present,said if the BJP really wanted the truth on coal block allotments to come out,it should have allowed a debate,instead of stalling Parliament. The government and the Prime Minister were ready for discussion,but not the BJP because they knew it would expose them,he said.
