From News Dispaches HYDERABAD: In a blitkrieg of accusations, the AP Chief Minister and National Front Chairman, N.T. Rama Rao squarely charged the Prime Minister Rajiy Gandhi with taking the RS 64 crore bribe in the infamous Bofors gun scandal,
“Rajiv Gandhi has sold himself for a commission,” Ram Rao publicly declared on Saturday morning at the Hyderabad airport giving a hero’s welcome to the Telugu Desam and allied party MPs who resigned from the Lok Sabha on the Bofors issue.
Can’t we have such a person as the Prime Minister of the county representing its 82 crore people? The time has come for the people to drag by hair this traitor of the nation and throw him out of the gaddi,” the Telugu Desam supreme thundered.
“The person who has come to power buying votes should now be buried,” Rama Rao told his party workers and those of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal who were present at the airport in large numbers.
“Our politics is not for a group but for the nation,” Rama Rao said hailing the step taken by the resigning MPs.
“The Telugu society pays accolades to them,” Rama Rao said workers from atop a decorated lorry that later took the ex-MPs in a km long procession through the main thoroughfares of the state capital,
“The opposition unity as witnessed by this momentous joint action of quitting the Lok Sabha should last” the Telug Desam chief said.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 4, 1989
