I was serving under a 'wrong' government: Top ex-babu
PATNA: Former Union
home secretary R K Singhsaid on Friday the BJP was a choice political party "for people like" him to join, given its uncompromising stand on matters of national interest, internal security and corruption. Besides, he could not align with any other political party in Bihar, either RJD or JD (U), as they are in cahoots with the Congress.
"I was in service in the government of a wrong party (read Congress-led UPA at the Centre). There is so much corruption there. It is now that (Congress vice-president) Rahul Gandhi has realized that corruption is a big problem that needs to be tackled," Singh said.
He, in the same vein, said, "Neither PM Manmohan Singh nor
Congress president Sonia Gandhi knows anything about the country, its extent, administrative units and problems. No other party, except the BJP, knows about what the country needs. We can remove the UPA."
He was speaking at the state BJP headquarters for the first time after joining the BJP in Delhi a month ago. Earlier, Singh received a rousing welcome at the Patna airport down to the state BJP headquarters where people from the state capital and Bhojpur district assembled in large numbers and rent the air with slogans 'Ara kshetra ki yahi pukar,R K Singh ho ummidwar (Ara parliamentary constituency giving this call, R K Singh be its candidate)' and 'Lok Sabha ki yahi pookar, R K Singh abki bar (Lok Sabha giving this call, this time it be R K Singh)'.
They, of course, also hailed BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi and former Bihar deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, who was present with former minister Giriraj Singh and others.
Asked if he felt any remorse at some stage for arresting former BJP chief and stalwart L K Advani during his 1990 'rath yatra' at Samastipur, Singh said he was performing his "duty", and he, as an
IAS officer, had also arrested his relatives for wrongdoing.
Modi described him a "no-nonsense" official, and also attributed the Bihar turnaround story through roads to his stint as road construction department principal secretary (PS). "If R K Singh had not been the department's PS and Nand Kishore Yadav the department's minister, the success story of Bihar road would not have been a reality. He did not flinch from blacklisting erring companies entrusted with the job of road construction. If anytime the Bihar turnaround story is written, the name of R K Singh will figure there," Modi said.
I was serving under a 'wrong' government: Top ex-babu - The Times of India
