JAMMU, May 26 -- Launching a blistering attack on the BJP, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Provincial President Jammu, Rattan Lal Gupta said the BJP leadership is rattled and politically frustrated because the Omar Abdullah-led government has restored transparency, accountability, and public scrutiny in governance, effectively choking the channels of corruption that flourished during BJP's direct rule in Jammu and Kashmir.

Responding to what he termed the BJP's "bogus propaganda campaign," Gupta said the party is in deep distress as its entrenched networks of patronage and profiteering have collapsed under an elected government committed to clean administration. "They are suffering like fish without water because their sources have d...