New Delhi, October 25: Responding to Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s allegations regarding the removal of CBI Director Alok Verma, the BJP on Thursday said “the people are objecting why no action was taken (against the officers concerned) earlier”.
“People are asking why the government did not intervene in the CBI on time when an anarchy-like situation was prevailing,” said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar terming as “malicious and fallacious” the latest charges levelled by Gandhi against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Javadekar also said there was no need to take the permission of the high-level committee comprising the prime minister, the leader of opposition and the CJI while taking action against Verma as there was “no removal or appointment”.
“Extraordinary situations warrant extraordinary solutions,” he said, adding that rather it was Congress which “misused” the premier investigating agency during its tenure to “intimidate political opponents”.
“The ED, the IB and the CBI are all independent organisations and the government is committed to weeding out corruption from all walks of life,” he said, adding that if what is happening is called “snooping” people don’t know the meaning of the word.
“I think the Congress has lost all hope to become relevant therefore even in his dreams Rahul Gandhi is dreaming Rafale. Rahul is living in hallucinations and is manufacturing lies,” he said.
“Today he came out with falsehood that the CBI director was removed when the fact is he was sent on leave and not removed. The second fallacious, malicious lie he manufactured was that the CBI director was investigating Rafale case.
“He (Gandhi) is doing this because he has lost the chance to pocket a hefty commission through his middleman friend Sanjay Bhandari. Because he has lost the chance to pocket the commission he is manufacturing such allegations.
“But Indian citizens are more mature. The country has not witnessed more immature politics than what is being practiced by Gandhi who has crossed all limits of civility and is cursing the prime minister day in and day out. People know why he is doing this and are rather asking why the government did not intervene in time even when there was an anarchy-like situation in the CBI.”
Gandhi today slammed the government for its action against Verma yesterday and alleged this was done as a “panic action to stall the impending probe into the Rafale jet deal”.
“By removing the CBI director, the PM has insulted the leader of opposition and the CJI so also the Constitution and the country,” said Gandhi.
