Union Minister Manish Tewari on Tuesday
asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to make public any evidence it has on Walmart lobbying in the US to open the way for foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail in India.
The Information & Broadcasting minister was reacting to the report that
Walmart had spent Rs 125 crore on lobbying activities in the US, including on issues related to enhanced market access for investment in India. The issue saw the BJP stalling proceedings in both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday.
Criticising the party for disrupting the House to score "brownie points", Tewari said: "If the BJP or
anybody else has any evidence it should have been made public. Those allegations should have been verified."
"Merely because a report gets published somewhere and it serves your political purpose, it ducktales into your larger agenda because you've lost the FDI vote in both the Houses that does not mean that you translate conjuncture into innuendo and extrapolate innuendo into allegations," he said.
"The BJP has developed a very strange operational methodology, first you make an allegation, then you reiterate the allegation and then you start believing in your own allegation. Before an allegation is made, the facts and circumstances should be verified in their entirety," he added.
He said stalling Parliament was not in the interest of the country.
"This is what the BJP has been doing in the last three years," the minister said.
With inputs from IANS 
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