New Delhi: Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh on Thursday (March 23, 2023) mentioned he has written to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal asking the probe company to quiz Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his current comment describing the Conrad Sangma authorities in Meghalaya in its earlier time period as “corrupt”. In a letter dated March 21, 2023, Ramesh requested Jaiswal to analyze that declare and wrote that Shah in his public speech final month mentioned the then authorities of Meghalaya “was the most corrupt government in the country”.
“Amit Shah is also the Home Minister of India. In his capacity as the home minister, he would surely have had access to information and facts that led him to this conclusion,” he wrote additional.
Sharing the letter on his official Twitter account, Jairam Ramesh mentioned that for some inexplicable causes, the house minister, who can also be the previous nationwide president of BJP, has did not act upon the details about the corrupt practices and situations of the then Meghalaya authorities.
“Therefore, in the highest national interest, we urge you to summon Shri Amit Shah and ask him to submit all the information and facts that led him to the stated assessment and investigate the matter,” he mentioned.
“We also urge you to investigate if the Home Minister of India was under any undue duress from his party or other forces, to suppress the information related to the corruption of Meghalaya, in order to enable his party BJP to support the same chief minister after the recent Meghalaya elections,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Ramesh mentioned he has written to the Director of CBI asking the probe company to query the Union dwelling minister additional on his “categorical assertion” that Conrad Sangma’s authorities in Meghalaya was essentially the most corrupt within the nation.
“That of course did not prevent the BJP from supporting the same Conrad Sangma again,” Ramesh added.