The Congress on Sunday sought to establish the alleged links between the BJP and Bollywood producer Sandeep Ssingh, who is under the scanner in the high profile Sushant Singh Rajput suicide/murder case, now being handled by CBI.
The Congress also alleged that all the drugs related cases being discussed in the media and leaked by the probing agency were during the BJP government led by Devendra Fadnavis and when Sandeep Ssingh was making the biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With spokesperson for Congress’ Maharashtra unit Sachin Sawant claiming that one Sandeep Ssingh, who was close to Rajput has links to the BJP, senior advocate and a Congress member in Rajya Sabha, Abhishek Manu Singhvi at a Press conference asked: “Is he the same Sandeep Ssingh who called the BJP office in Maharashtra 53 times.” He asked the BJP to furnish details of which leaders, if any, were in touch with Singh.
Though individual statements of various leaders flowed in media on the Sushant Rajput case but this was the first time that the Congress conducted a Press conference.
Singhvi reiterated the point made by Sawant that Singh was one of the producers of the biopic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi starring actor Vivek Oberoi in the lead role. “This shows that he (Sandeep) has close links with the BJP since the biopic poster was launched in the presence then Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis,” Singhvi said raising doubts that due to his close links Ssing may flee the country.
“In 2019, his firm Legend Global Studio was the only film company to have signed a Rs 178 crore MoU at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit despite reporting losses for consecutive years,” Singhvi said.
The Congress further said that Ssingh was part of a trip to Mauritius organised by the Indian Embassy where he was charged with sexually assaulting a minor Swiss national on March 29, 2018. “It is being claimed that the matter has been settled, but we want to put before people the real face of BJP,” the Rajya Sabha member said.
Referring to recent developments in the case of the deceased actor, Singhvi said, “Most drug-related cases linked to SSR case are from 2018, 2019. What was Fadnavis government doing then?”
“The swiftness with which case was handed to CBI, was it because of Sandeep Ssingh? A number of people in the case have close links with BJP,” Singhvi claimed.
