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[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/333997/Advani-slams-UPA-on-corruption.html"]Advani slams UPA on corruption[/url]

Senior BJP leader L K Advani today launched a broadside against the government on corruption, raking up issues like the "bribing" of MPs during the 2008 Trust Vote and Wikileaks expose.



"Manmohan Singh has been Prime Minister of the country since May 2004. The only serious trial of strength his government has had to face in Parliament was in July, 2008. The government, reduced to a minority, decided to win the confidence vote by bribing MPs. And this was done openly and shamelessly," Advani said in the latest post on his blog.



In his post, which primarily seeks to to attack the government on its approach towards nuclear plants even after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Advani talks about controversies that have surrounded the UPA I and II.



He said the three BJP MPs, who dumped the cash in Lok Sabha on July 22, 2008, actually played the role of whistle-blowers.



Advani also referred to the reports based on WikiLeaks last month narrating how "two chests full of currency notes amounting to Rs 50-60 crores were shown to a US Embassy official at the residence of Congress MP Satish Sharma."