Amid uproar across the nation over the CBI-police face-off in Kolkata, Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Monday termed the Central investigating agency's action in the chit fund probe case as "unprofessional conduct" coloured with "political motives".
The party opined for restoration of integrity and maintaining of professionalism on the CBI's part in the issue.
"Institutional integrity has to be restored after all this infighting. We are a mature democracy; and professionalism should be maintained in these issues. Even in Odisha, sudden action by the CBI just before panchayat elections in the past and now before general elections smacks of unprofessional conduct coloured with political motives," the BJD said in a statement.
Raising the issue in Lok Sabha, BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab said, "It is something which demonstrates and also questions the institutional integrity of CBI. The manner in which the CBI has been functioning during the last two to three months, it does not show any professionalism."
"We are not a banana republic. Odisha has also seen CBI officers barging into a sitting High Court judge's residence in the early hours of the morning. Steps were also taken by the CBI just to defame the BJD," he added.