\'Alliance of corrupt\' emerging to save each other: Ravi Shankar Prasad

New Delhi: The BJP said on Monday an “alliance of the corrupt” is emerging after several opposition parties supported Mamata Banerjee in her protest against the CBI’s move to question Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha scam case.

At a presser in Delhi, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wondered if Banerjee backed the police commissioner because he held “secrets” and hence needed to be saved. Refuting opposition’s charge that CBI’s attempt to question Kumar was an attack on federalism and Modi government’s political vendetta, he said this cannot be an “alibi to save the corrupt”.

Joined by Jitendra Singh, MoS in the DoPT, Prasad also took strong exception to the presence of the Kolkata police commissioner at the dharna site, saying it was “unprecedented” and he has exposed himself to the charge of serious violation of rules guiding the conduct of police officers.