The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold nine press conferences in nine states to counter the allegations of "misuse of central agencies" made by opposition parties in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently.
Nine opposition leaders including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging "misuse of central agencies" amidst the war of words over the arrest of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case.
"... After a long witch-hunt, Manish Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with alleged irregularity without a shred of evidence against him," the opposition leaders said in the letter to PM Modi.
According to reports, these press meets have been organised in the home states of the opposition leaders who wrote to PM Modi including Delhi, Punjab, Maharashtra, Bengal, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir.
The letter was undersigned by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Chandrasekhar Rao, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) chief Farooq Abdullah, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, AAP leader Bhagwat Mann, Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Tejashwi Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Some leaders who have been fielded for these conferences are opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari in West Bengal, President of the state unit in Bihar Sanjay Jaiswal, Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak in Uttar Pradesh, and State President Sanjay Bandi in Telangana. Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari held the first of these meets in the national capital today.
What did Manoj Tiwari say?
He alleged that all the opposition leaders who wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against CBI and ED were “involved in corruption” and there was panic among the corrupt following the arrest of AAP leader Manish Sisodia in the Delhi excise policy case.
“The main objective of the Modi government is that no corrupt person should be left out and no innocent should be punished. All the corrupt have come together as the heat of investigation is reaching the mastermind of corruption,“ he alleged.
(With inputs from PTI)
