By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Monday said the central government had become dysfunctional and there were question marks on who held the number one and number two positions in it.
“The government is dysfunctional. It lacks decision-making…With every passing day, a newer order or decision comes which only aggravates the chaos,” Advani told reporters at the district headquarter town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from here.
Referring to a report on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s working arrangements for disposal of urgent business during his absence, Advani said such a move demonstrates anarchy and chaos in the functioning of the government.
“Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also leader of the Lok Sabha, and Home Minister P. Chidambaram have been placed at par,” he said.
“In the United Progressive Alliance government (UPA), since its formation there has been a question mark over who is number one in the government – the prime minister or the Congress president,” he said.
“Now a question mark has been placed even over who is number two,” he said.
“One wonders if the formal promotion of P. Chidambaram to parity status with the leader of the Lok Sabha is a desperate attempt to thwart a probe against him in the 2G scam after the indictment of DMK leaders,” he said.
Advani who has arrived in Orissa Sunday as part of his ongoing anti-graft roadshow, Jan Chetna Yatra, is to address several public meetings across the state Monday.
He also did not rule out an alliance with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa in the 2014 general elections even though the two had ended their partnership in 2009.
“I am not ruling out anything. The relations between the two have (become) more tense…so naturally the state unit’s view will be taken in to account,” Advani said.