New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday shared an inventory of leaders in opposition to whom graft probes have been allegedly stopped after they switched sides to the BJP and took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘na khaunga na khane dunga’ slogan, saying that most likely “he was only talking about beef”.
Tharoor’s swipe got here a day after Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP chief Manish Sisodia was despatched to five-day custody of the CBI by a particular court docket right here in a excise coverage rip-off case after being arrested on Sunday.
Taking to Twitter, he shared an inventory, broadly circulated on social media, of eight leaders — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa,
Suvendu Adhikari, Bhavna Gawli, Yashwant Jadhav, Yamini Jadhav, Pratap Sarnaik and Narayan Rane — who both joined the BJP or its allies.
The screenshot of the checklist shared by Tharoor claimed that graft probes in opposition to these leaders have been stalled after they switched sides in assist of the BJP.
“This is going around, so sharing as received. Always wondered about the meaning of ‘na khaunga na khane dunga’ . I guess he was only talking about beef!” Tharoor stated, referring to the anti-graft slogan attributed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The CBI on Sunday night arrested Sisodia after almost eight hours of questioning on varied features of the now scrapped excise coverage for 2021-22, which the probe company says suffered from irregularities each in its formulation and implementation, allegedly meant to learn folks with hyperlinks to the AAP.
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