The BJP on Sunday tore into the UPA for its "defective" leadership structure and identified rampant corruption as the "defining feature" of the ruling alliance.
The Opposition party, whose National Executive meeting concluded on Sunday, also sought to project the NDA as the only credible alternative to the UPA. The political resolution adopted by the BJP's National Executive here said: "In the long list of crimes committed by the Congress against the people of India in the last four years, three stand out: Obnoxious corruption; degradation of the economy and a malignant assault on the federal spirit of our polity."
The resolution moved by former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and seconded by Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that PM Manmohan Singh was not the real leader of this Government, but merely in office. "True power vests with the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who has the last word on policy issues. For its future, the Congress looks towards the heir apparent, her son," it said.
The BJP claimed that massive loot of public money had taken place because of the patronage and involvement of people at the very top of the Congress pyramid.
Also, the arrogance of power has made the Congress indifferent to popular outrage. The party blamed the UPA for "deliberately and consistently" weakening and disregarding democratic institutions. “This has been done in many ways, both overt and surreptitious,” the party document said.