Congress, Kejri, RJD question PM after CBI chief sent on leave

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 24

The Congress and AAP launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending the CBI chief on leave “against all settled principles and practices”.

Former minister Veerappa Moily said the PM should not have acted unilaterally in removing the CBI chief and followed the law.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asked under what law the PM had acted while Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala accused the PM of denigrating every institution.

“Modi Govt buries the ‘last nail’ into the independence of CBI. Systematic dismantling and denigrating of CBI is now complete. Once a premier investigating agency, PM ensures that CBI’s integrity, credibility and reliability is ‘buried & dead’,” said Surjewala.

The Delhi CM wanted to know the reasons for sending the CBI director on leave.

“Under which law did the Modi govt get the authority to initiate action against the chief of an investigating agency appointed as per the Lokpal Act? What is Modi govt trying to hide?” asked Kejriwal.

Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD leader whose father Lalu Yadav is under the CBI probe, also reacted to the developments saying “Central BJP Intruders (CBI) have virtually taken over Caged Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to save Corrupt Brokers of India (CBI) through its Criminal Barter Interrogation (CBI) by its Crooked Bureaucrats of Incompetence (CBI). #CBIVsCBI.”