Kendrapada BJD MP Baijayant Panda’s office on Thursday refuted the charges levelled against him by former Chhattisgarh CM Ajit Jogi over his alleged link with Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
“These allegations by Jogi are ridiculous.”
P Chidambaram had appeared in court as legal counsel for companies connected to Panda’s family. Neither Panda nor any of his family members have any dealings with his son Karti Chidambaram,” said a statement of Panda’ office.
The ‘clarification’ further stated, “Nalini Chidambaram owns shares in one of the companies.
It happens to be a public company in which anyone can buy shares, and upon checking we have found that only 10 shares are owned in this name.”
The reaction came soon after Jogi levelled allegations at a Press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday demanding a probe into the matter.
Jogi alleged that two companies owned by the family of Baijayant Panda had received undue favours from Chidambaram.
He too alleged that several nationalised banks had waived loans sanctioned to Panda’s family company IMFA between 1998 and 2003.
He added that Chidambaram was advocating in court in favour of the IMFA in the loan waiver case during the time and the IMFA got a Rs 2,300-cfrore waiver.