Congress MLA Amba Prasad on Sunday said that former Chief Minister, Raghubar Das, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Poddar were the main culprits in the 2016 Rajya Sabha horse-trading case. Suspended IPS officer Anurag Gupta was only a pawn, she added.
Former Minister and Amba’s father Yogendra Saw was allegedly pressurised to vote in favour of the BJP during the 2016 RS polls. Chief Minister Hemant Soren led State Government suspended Gupta on February 13. The IPS officer is accused of threatening former Minister Yogendra Saw for voting in favor of BJP during the Rajya Sabha elections in the year 2016 while being Additional Director General (ADG) posted at Special Branch of Jharkhand Police. In this case a First Information Report was also registered with Jaganathpur Police Station in 2018.
Addressing a press meet at Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) headquarter in the State Capital on Sunday, Amba said that the BJP used Gupta as a pawn to pressurize her father Yogendra Saw and her Mother then MLA from Barkagaon State Assembly Constituency Nirmala Devi. “During the Rajya Sabha election, the main roles were played by Raghubar Das, Union Minister Naqvi and Rajya Sabha MP Poddar in the conspiracy. They used Gupta to convey their messages to my parents at that time. When my parents refused to hear their demands they implicated them under false cases. My entire family was badly tortured and harassed by the former State Govt,” she added.
The MLA from Barkagaon State Assembly Constituency demanded that the entire case should be investigated by National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Special Investigation Team (SIT) so that her family could get justice. She said that she requested Chief Minister Hemant Soren in this regard and asked him to constitute a high level investigation team to probe the case.
Amba said that she has many evidences to show in the Court but she will not give it to any police officer. She doubted that how can a police officer investigate against a police officer. She said that she herself and her brother have been implicated in false case by misusing power during regime of former State Government.
Yogendra Saw won from Barkagaon State Assembly Constituency in 2009 as Congress candidate and became Minister in the State Government. In the State Assembly election of 2014, his wife Nirmala Devi contested as Congress candidate from the seat and won. In 2019, State Assembly elections Prasad won from the seat.