Country crying for alternative to UPA, NDA: Kejriwal

New Delhi: While the BJP gave a breather to party president Nitin Gadkari, standing by him, India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal came all guns blazing on the Congress and BJP saying they were fooling the country. Kejriwal tweeted, "Vadra gets clean chit. Gadkari supported by BJP. Both BJP n Cong exposed. Anti-corruption stances of BJP n Cong are pretence and lip service, meant to fool aam aadmi. Country crying for an alternative to UPA and NDA (sic)."

This came a day after Robert Vadra got a clean chit from Haryana deputy commissioners over his land deals and the BJP, after a late night meeting, said that there was no question of Gadkari stepping down as party president. Kejriwal had on Friday said that he was confident that like Robert Vadra, BJP President Nitin Gadkari will also get a clean chit.

Demanding that Vadra and Gadkari disclose their business interests, Kejriwal said, "We will be made fools on the name of probe. Congress and BJP are together in this. We have started the process to expose Vadra and Gadkari, media has to take it forward."

He reiterated that both the Congress and BJP were hand-in-glove with each other and were saving each other. "I am very confident that Gadkari will get a clean chit too. I will not be suprised. We will be made fools in the name of probe. Congress and BJP are together in this," Kejriwal said.

Vadra got a clean chit by a panel of four deputy commissioners in Haryana on Friday. Four deputy commissioners found no irregularities in Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals. A panel of four Deputy Commissioners gave Vadra's deals a clean chit. Four Haryana deputy commissioners conducted inquiries into Vadra's deals after IAS officer Ashok Khemka's order, dated October 12.

Meanwhile, more allegations surfaced against Nitin Gadkari. CNN-IBN accessed documents showing that four of Gadkari's very close aides, including his former driver and accountant, have been directors in at least 26 companies and that too within a period of the past four years.

Gadkari's former driver, Manohar Panse was a director in 11 companies between 2009 and 2011. Gadkari's very close aide, Kawdu Zade, has been a director in 16 companies in the same period. Purti employee Nishant Agnihotri has been a director in 13 companies.

A very close aide, Sagar Kotwaliwale has been a director in 9 companies. Like the controversial Purti Sugar and Power Private Ltd. in Nagpur, there are three more companies controlled by the 4 close aides of Gadkari.