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Patnaik accuses Pranab of buying support
Monday July 02, 2012 11:30:34 PM,
IANS
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Bhubaneswar: Odisha
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has accused United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee of buying
support of parties by doling out large sums of money to selective
states during his tenure as finance minister.
"Pranab Mukherjee as finance minister of India had doled out huge
sum of money... lakhs of crores... to certain states like Bihar,
Bengal and UP," Patnaik, chief of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), told
reporters Sunday night after returning from New Delhi.
"Could it be that this money is going because he wants certain
parties...to support his candidature as Rastrapati (president) of
India?" Patnaik, who returned after a four-day trip, asked.
He said the money had been sanctioned in favour of states ruled by
Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (Uttar Pradesh), Nitish
Kumar's Janata Dal-United (Bihar) and Mamata Benerjee's Trinamool
Congress (West Bengal).
"This is not private money but people's money, your money. Why is
so much money being given by the central government when the
presidential elections are going on?"
Patnaik was the first to announce the name of former Lok Sabha
speaker P.A. Sangma in May for country's top post against former
finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. He was also the first to sign
as a proposer on Sangma's nomination papers.
Sangma is also being backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the
Shiromani Akali Dal and the AIADMK.
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