NEW DELHI, SEPT 2: The BJP today sought to turn the heat on the Congress by raking up the Bofors controversy again, observing that, with the expected arrival of the seventh set of documents, the names of the recipients of the kickbacks would be known.``It is this last set of documents which is eagerly awaited in India,'' remarked party general secretary Narendra Modi, ``Several obstructions have been laid in the last decade to stop these documents from coming to the country. But truth has an inconvenient habit of eventually becoming public. The more it is concealed, the more it is known.''
He asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to come clean on the Bofors bribery case. ``Why is she reluctant to give answers to questions concerning her family and friends ?'' he asked.
He wondered why Ottavio Quattrochi was permitted by the Congress Government to flee from the country after it was known that he was among the beneficiaries of the Bofors deal.
The BJP spokesperson charged the Congress withrepresenting the corrupt face of Indian politics. ``When it was in power, it indulged in every possible act of corruption,'' he alleged.
``So deeply has the Congress sunk in corruption that investigations of serious charges of corruption are on against its last two prime ministers. One of them is currently being prosecuted in the JMM bribery case,'' Modi added.
The BJP leader also termed the Congress-AIADMK-RJD combine as the ``trimurti'' of corruption. ``It is an alliance of the corrupt to save the corrupt,'' he quipped.
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