``I am prepared to get the corruption charges inquired even against me and my relatives and quit the Chief Ministership, if they are proved,'' Patel challenged the Opposition while replying to the debate on the budgetary demands of the General Administration Department (GAD) in the State Assembly.

Mounting a blistering attack on the Opposition, he singled out Leader of the Opposition Amarsinh Chaudhary and counter-charged him with ``thwarting the State's progress by hurling baseless and politically-motivated allegations of corruption against him, his ministerial colleagues and relatives'' and said ``he is doing this to survive as the Opposition leader in his faction-ridden Congress party.''

Patel also had a dig at Congress member Udesih Baria who, quoting an anonymous leaflet, sought to level corruption charges against Patel and his relatives. ``Why are you making such serious allegations based on the unsigned leaflet. Can you substantiate even one of these charges. If so, I am prepared to get them investigated even through an independent agency,'' the Chief Minister shouted at Baria.

Turning the heat on the Opposition Leader, Patel said it was shocking that Chaudhary was levelling charges of corruption in a computer purchase deal without studying the matter in right perspective. Chaudhary was wittingly or unwittingly mixing the three issues of the MoU signed with the WorldTel for a State-wide communication network, the Infocity planned near Gandhinagar and the purchase of computers, he said.

Patel said the Government had signed the MoU with all transparency and ``I am prepared to even table its copy in the House and I challenge the Leader to point out even one flaw in it.''

He angrily remarked: ``The advanced countries are floating upgrahs (satellites), while the Opposition Congress is still not ready to keep aside its purvagrah (prejudices) against the BJP Government.''

Earlier initiating the debate, Chaudhary charged that the Government had messed up the administration which had come to a standstill with the Chief Minister having cornered all powers for himself.

He said the transfers (of employees and officers) had become the order of the day, with the backward class and minority officers being pushed into non-executive posts.

Chaudhary also charged that a coterie of senior bureaucrats had been showing files to even those exercising unconstitutional authority in the corridors of power in Gandhinagar.