Retorting to JMM’s announcement to reopen files of the infamous Meinhardt issue and conduct probe in it, State BJP Spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo today said that the Vigilance department has already probed the matter and did not find any irregularity.
“The BJP is not shying away from any kind of probe, but when old files are being reopened and probed the JMM bribery case should also be reinvestigated on the directions of Supreme Court in 2014.
The JMM general Secretary presents the matters with incomplete information. Meinhardt issue was not during the tenure of former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi but he referred to it as Babulal's tenure. In fact, JMM has got upset due to the merger of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha with BJP and its leaders are saying anything,” said Shahdeo.
“Apart from the JMM bribery case, there is no other instance when Rs 3 crore of bribe has been kept in Punjab National Bank's Narora branch in New Delhi. JMM should tell about the amount of bribe on which they got a notice to pay income tax, in the light of this, whether they have paid income tax on bribe money or not,” he added.
Pratul said that the JMM while referring to Babulal as the Wholesaler of MLAs, forgets that the term horse trading in Indian parliamentary history had its origin from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha when its four MPs voted to save the government at the Centre by taking money from Congress. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a super seller of the politics of horse trading,” he added.