Gujarat Power Scam

The Congress on Thursday alleged that the BJP government in Gujarat had let four private companies -- Adani, ESSAR, Tata and China Light Power -- to "squander" Rs 26,000 crore of the public exchequer by purchasing electricity from them at "unimaginably high rates" in a "huge power purchase scam" in the state.

As an embattled BJP scrambles to contain the crisis triggered by the resignation of LK Advani, the Congress seems to be having a smirk on its face. Cornered till recently by the BJP over a series of scams and corruption scandals, the Congress took a dig at the saffron party, saying it was desperate for power.

A poor shopkeeper's search on Google helped him blow the lid off the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scam in his village in Gujarat, after he found several doctors and teachers listed for his area all fictitious. Thirty-seven-year old Aslam Khokhar is a paan shop owner in Kotada Village of Gujarat and a Class X dropout. Few yea...

The Congress on Thursday alleged that the BJP government in Gujarat had let four private companies -- Adani, ESSAR, Tata and China Light Power -- to "squander" Rs 26,000 crore of the public exchequer by purchasing electricity from them at "unimaginably high rates" in a "huge power purchase scam" in the state.

As an embattled BJP scrambles to contain the crisis triggered by the resignation of LK Advani, the Congress seems to be having a smirk on its face. Cornered till recently by the BJP over a series of scams and corruption scandals, the Congress took a dig at the saffron party, saying it was desperate for power.

A poor shopkeeper's search on Google helped him blow the lid off the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scam in his village in Gujarat, after he found several doctors and teachers listed for his area all fictitious. Thirty-seven-year old Aslam Khokhar is a paan shop owner in Kotada Village of Gujarat and a Class X dropout. Few yea...