BJP is on Suicidal path : Ram Jethmalani
New Delhi:Suspended BJP MP and noted Lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday mounted a fresh attack on party President Nitin Gadkari, accusing him of dragging the party on a suicidal path.
In his letter to Gadkari and in comments to the media, Jethmalani made a scathing attack on Jaitley for backing Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar for the post of CBI Director who he said was “totally unworthy” of holding that office.
“Your order of suspension is ultra vires and usurpation of the power of the Parliamentary Board. Besides no situation had arisen in which you should have proceeded without speaking to me and complying with ordinary decencies of a quasi-judicial office which you hold,” the suspended party MP said.
He maintained that he is “totally indifferent” to the step taken by Gadkari as his standing in the legal profession and in politics as well as the affection and respect that he enjoys from sections of the people of India does not depend on his membership of Parliament.
Making a scathing comment, Jethmalani said in his letter, “I am convinced that you are firmly set on the path of suicide and you are determined to drag the whole party with you. ’Vinash kal Vipreet Buddhi (when one is set to be doomed he loses his mind)’ is an old maxim.”
Jethmalani rejected the ten day deadline given by the party for him to reply to his show cause notice on his expulsion, saying he was busy time should be extended upto December-end.
On the government’s decision on the CBI Director, he said the Prime Minister has done a good thing for a change. “He rarely does so. Where is the attack in this on Sushma and Arun and what indiscipline,” he said.
Referring to Gadkari and the action of the other two leaders, Jethmalani said, “I cannot account for their lack of wisdom. I am clear they have already irredeemable and irretrievable harm to the party…. Even a Congress agent will not be able to do what all the three of them, Gadkari in particular, have done.”
