Cong seeks PM action, asks to expel minister from BJP

NEW DELHI: The Congress Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expel Gujarat minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama from the BJP.

Congress leader Kapil Sibal questioned the PM'S silence on the issue and said if he was serious on ending corruption in the country he should take strict action against the minister from his home state.

Sibal said Chudasama was declared a winner by 327 votes when 429 of the total 1,356 postal ballots were rejected which, he claimed, altered the result.

The former Union law minister also felt that if such corrupt practices continue to happen in the country and Constitutional bodies weakened, democracy will suffer.

"This is an example of how our governments, ministers, Election Commission are engulfed in corruption and Modi ji is silent," he told reporters at a press conference through video conferencing.

"There is a conspiracy somewhere in this case .... Why does Modi ji not get angry if there is corruption, because he himself had said that he will take to the streets to end it," he said.

"Modi ji talks big at the stages. If Modi ji has the guts to end corruption, he should say that this minister should be thrown out of the party and strict action taken against him and no appeal against this High Court order be filed. But, I have no hope," Siibal said.

The former union minister said even though Chudasama was Parliamentary Affairs Minister, "he is actually a minister for corrupt affairs".