New Delhi, Nov 5: Janata Party president Subramanyam Swamy on Thursday hit out at Reliance Industries, charging it with trying to engineer a split between BJP and its allies.For the first time in many months, Swamy adopted a conciliatory posture towards the ruling BJP and said that Reliance split the Gujarat BJP and was trying to create "disaffection between the AIADMK and its allies like the PMK and DMK".
Addressing a press conference here, Swamy wondered why a Reliance official was being allowed to go scot free despite evidences of his links with Romesh Sharma. "Unless the court monitors, the truth may be buried. So I am filing a PIL in the Supreme Court".
Swamy also alleged that quite a few union ministers were working at the behest of Reliance. He said, "Reliance owners are operating a secret illegal bank account in Lichenstein of Rs 2,000 crore or more. The government must investigate this". Asked to substantiate, he said that "every one of my charges was based on C & AG reports, CBIinvestigations and Sebi indictments".
Swamy said that he had written to prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee about the involvement of Fernandes and Jethmalani with the LTTE as well. He said that senior defence officials had told him that Fernandes had asked the forces to ease pressure on the LTTE. And Jethmalani had given similar instructions to his aides to ``go easy'' on the appeal pending before the Supreme Court filed by 26 LTTE persons sentenced to death by a trial court for Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. "This is not only unethical but wholly anti-national".
He said the solution to the Sri Lankan problem was in redrafting its constitution and making it federal instead of its present unitary character. "Tamils constituted 25 per cent of its population but had zero per cent rights''.
For a proper solution, either Sri Lanka should accept a federal structure or should give the Eelam to Tamils.
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