RSS ideologue and former BJP general secretary KN Govindacharya has said that Narendra Modi government's lack of action against its ministers who have been accused of corruption and impropriety "speaks of the political dishonesty of the establishment". In an interview to a print media, Govindacharya accused the Modi government of being "power-centric, not people-centric" administration "in which issues and values have been given a goodbye". The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had raised the issue of corruption while campaigning for the 2014 general elections, has been under the opposition fire after reports emerged that foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje helped former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi obtain British travel and immigration documents. It is also facing flak over Maharashtra minister and late BJP leader Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Munde's alleged role in a Rs 206-crore food scam. Swaraj, whose husband and daughter have worked as lawyers for Modi, said she had acted solely on humanitarian grounds so that Modi could travel to Portugal to be with his ailing wife. Raje initially denied signing an affidavit backing Modi's British immigration appeal but later admitted to some BJP leaders she had signed the document. "When the home minister responds to a demand for resignations of ministers saying that would be fitting for the UPA but not the NDA, people draw their own conclusions," Govindacharya told the daily.
