Lucknow: Questioning the CBI for slow progress in ‘Coalgate’, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said the premier investigating agency might be ‘parrot in a cage’ for the Congress but for others it was ‘vulture’.
“The apex court had made an apt comment by dubbing central bureau of investigation as a ‘parrot’ but as a matter of fact it is parrot for the Congress only, the BJP national general secretary Ananat Kumar Singh told newsmen here.
Asking the CBI for delay in thorough probe in coal scam, he asked why the arrests were not made in this case while the propmt action was taken in railway bribe case.
Singh alleged that prime minister Manmohan Singh was directly involved in the scam and no impartial probe was possible without his resignation.
He said the BJP would launch a continuous agitation in protest against the rampant corruption, inflation and insecurity among the people. “In the first phase,’jail bharo’ agiation will take place from May 27 to June 2 next,” he said.
Describing CBI as shield of the PM, the senior BJP leader had the probe agency been autonomous, it would have quizzed Dr Singh by now.” No senior officer or former or present coal minister was taken to task so far even as the speedy action took place in railway bribe case involving former railway minister Pawan Bansal,”he pointed out.
Mr Singh went further saying if the coal allotment was cancelled then it meant the government prima facie accepted irregularities in coal block allotment. Also the coal portfolio remained with the prime minister for a considerable time, he added.
Directing blaming the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and prime minister Manmohan Singh for corruption and inflation, Mr Kumar said the from commonwealth game corruption to ‘coalgate’, the revealations were not made by the opposition but by the constitutional authorities like CAG and the Supreme Court.”In view of this the stern action should be taken against the guilty,” he said.
Castigating the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pardesh and Bahujan Samaj Party for all the ills in the state, the BJP general secretary said these parties were ‘mask’ of the Congress.
He said that the prevailing problems of the country would be discussed threadbare in the party’s national executive scheduled to be held in Goa and these matters would also be raised in the monsoon session of the parliament. (UNI)
