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| The interview published in The Telegraph on Tuesday |
Nagpur, Oct. 14: The BJP today said former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had “shielded the corrupt” because of his compulsions of running a coalition government.
“It’s a clear admission that he shielded the corrupt in his government,” Rajiv Pratap Rudy, the BJP general secretary in charge of the state, said, referring to Chavan’s statement in his interview in The Telegraph today.
Rudy, speaking in Mumbai, said by not acting against former chief ministers Ashok Chavan, Sushil Kumar Shinde and he late Vilasrao Deshmukh in the Adarsh scam, Chavan was “an accomplice in the crime”.
Chavan had conceded that a crackdown could have brought down his coalition government and “decimated” the Congress. But Rudy said Chavan had adopted a “holier-than-thou attitude”.