Senior Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi on Tuesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the Priyadarshni Co-operative Bank case in which a recording made on a CD (compact disk) of a narco test conducted on the accused talks about money paid allegedly to Chief Minister Raman Singh and his cabinet colleagues.
In a statement issued here, the former CM stated that the bank scam led to embezzlement of crores of rupees belonging to the poor in 2007. Jogi said that the Government is fully involved in the bank scam while trying to cover up the case based on imagined facts. He said that the statements issued by the leaders involved in the raises suspicion of another conspiracy being hatched by them. The former Chief Minister stated that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is probing the Jeeram Ghati massacre by the Maoists must also include the CD on the bank scam so that the truths of a political conspiracy could be revealed.
Meanwhile, spokesperson of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee Mahendra Chhabra in a statement issued here demand why BJP’s parent outfit Rashtriya Savayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had been keeping mum on the issue of name of Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues emerging in the narco test in the bank scam case. He said that the RSS is refraining from releasing any statement despite such a big revealation made on a corruption issue in Chhattisgarh.