BJP flays Cong for trying to 'weaken' CAG

Slamming Congress for trying to "weaken" CAG by making it a multi-member body, BJP today warned that any such move would only 'boomerang' on the party.

"Whenever the Congress is in trouble or faces criticism, they try to weaken the institutions if they are constitutional bodies," senior BJP Leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters on Union Minister V Narayanasamy's remarks on CAG.

In an interview to PTI yesterday, Narayanasamy had said a former CAG's suggestion for making the official auditor a multi-member body was under consideration.

"Now it is very clear that the Congress is not able to digest the independent and autonomous CAG and is going with the move to make CAG a multi-member body," he said.

Naidu alleged that the Congress had earlier tried to tarnish the image of CAG in the wake of observations damning the UPA regime over wrongful allocation of coal blocks.

"They did the same thing even in 1980s when CAG looked into Bofors contract and HDW Submarine deals. They quashed the locus standi and auditing methods. They even criticised CAG on 2G spectrum report and declared that there was no loss," he said.

"Congress has forgotten that its stock crashed after it resorted to similar CAG bashing in 1989. Now the same thing will be repeated as and when elections are held," he said.
Naidu said BJP would be meeting on eve of Parliament winter session beginning on November 22 to discuss the issue.