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  • Jitendra aims dig at UPA regime, says Modi govt does not interfere in CBI’s affairs

    Jitendra aims dig at UPA regime, says Modi govt does not interfere in CBI’s affairs

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    Jammu: Asserting that the Narendra Modi-led government does not interfere in the affairs of the CBI, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said it was during the UPA regime the Supreme Court had pointed out that the CBI was a “parrot in a cage”.

    Singh was replying to a question seeking his reaction about the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoning former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in connection with an alleged insurance scam.

    Singh told reporters after a BJP programme, “The CBI is an autonomous institution. Let it act on its investigation. Nobody can interfere with it.”

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    The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government does not interfere in the CBI’s affairs, he added.

    Asked for his response on Congress leader KC Venugopal’s tweet about central agencies being the BJP’s ”lapdog”, Singh said, ”He is still carrying the mentality that used to be there during the Congress’ time.”

    The Union minister also said that during the UPA regime, the Supreme Court said the CBI was a parrot in a cage.

    “Post 2014, the situation has changed. In Modi ji’s government, interference in the function of the CBI does not happen. They are given full independence,” Singh said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Conviction of corrupt more during UPA regime: Kapil Sibal

    Conviction of corrupt more during UPA regime: Kapil Sibal

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    New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked CBI not to spare the corrupt, independent MP Kapil Sibal on Tuesday questioned the conviction rate in the current government which was only 71 in 2016.

    “PM to CBI : Don’t spare the corrupt,

    March 2016 : Jitender Singh told Parliament “

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    But the fact is 2013 : 1136 persons convicted for corruption, 2014 : 993,

    2015 : 878, 2016 : 71

    “Conviction of the corrupt higher during UPA! Men may lie but facts do not lie

    Who is protecting the corrupt?” Sibal tweeted.

    On Monday, the Prime Minister attacked the previous dispensations for their apparent lax attitude towards dealing with corruption and said that it was only after 2014, when the BJP-led dispensation came to power, that the malaise was dealt with severely.

    Addressing a gathering while inaugurating the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Modi said that unfortunately India got a legacy of corruption at the time of Independence and lamented the fact that instead of removing it, “some people kept nourishing this malady”.

    He recalled the “scams and the prevailing sense of impunity just a decade ago, when the UPA dispensation was in power”.

    “This situation led to the destruction of the system and an atmosphere of policy paralysis brought the development to stand still,” he said.

    After 2014, the Prime Minister reiterated that the priority of the government was to instill faith in the system and for this, the government started taking action against black money and benami property in mission mode and started inflicting damage on the corrupt as well as the reasons behind the corruption.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )