Former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Harish Rawat has questioned why the BJP is avoiding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the national highway 74 compensation scam. Responding to the BJP alleging that Congress leaders had benefited directly from the national highway 74 compensation scam, he said that the Congress had been demanding a high court monitored probe by the CBI into this scam. He said, “If the BJP State president is aware of money from the scam being deposited into the accounts of Congress leaders, it is his responsibility also as a responsible citizen to file a complaint with the authorities concerned.
The Congress has been demanding a CBI probe monitored by the high court to ascertain the truth in this case. It is the BJP which has avoided such a probe.
The BJP has the habit of slinging mud instead of taking concrete action,” he added.