Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu on Wednesday made light of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s assertion that top cops of the CBI were sent on leave for an impartial enquiry.
Slamming the Central government, he alleged that all the institutions were collapsing under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule. The Centre was messing up everything. It was systematically dismantling and denigrating the constitutional bodies and premier institutions , he said in a press statement here.
Mr. Ramakrishnudu said the CBI and many other institutions saw their worst since Independence in the Modi regime. Never in the history did a Supreme Court Chief Justice break into tears. Nor apex court judges held a press conference to list a litany of problems afflicting it. The BJP leaders were deriding the democracy and the federal spirit. They brought disgrace to the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Income Tax department.
Now, it was the turn of the CBI which never faced infighting. Nor were there allegations of corruption or counter allegations. The CBI was grappling with the worst-ever credibility crisis due to the internal feud. The allegations mirrored the inefficient rule of the Modi government and were an indication of the fall of the Modi government.
Cases against Jagan
If Mr. Jaitley’s claim were true, why was the government hesitating to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal, the biggest scam in the Defence sector, he asked.
The people understood the ‘fairness’ with the release of YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s properties attached by the ED. The Supreme Court directed that inquiry into the economic offences cases should be completed in a month. The cases were yet to be taken to a logical conclusion. And the economic offenders were making rounds to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), he alleged. People would teach a befitting lesson at an appropriate time.