THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Ranchi, May 6: BJP State President and Chief Minister Babulal Marandi today asked Chief Minister Champai Soren to act on the former Chief Secretary’s (Sukhdev Singh) letter written to the rural development secretary after the ED shared a report on suspended chief engineer Virendra Ram and sought to book him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
He said that the Chief Secretary had written a letter to the Rural Development Secretary and all those letters were found along with the piles of notes, recovered today by the ED at raids on the premises of the household help of Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam’s PS Sanjiv Lal.
‘CM should lodge FIR’
He said that Chief Minister Champai Soren should file an FIR immediately based on the letter and get the entire matter investigated by the CBI.
The former chief secretary had asked the secretary to act on the ED’s report immediately.
On April 18 last year, the ED had attached immovable properties worth Rs 39.28 crore that Ram had, including two flats and one plot in Delhi. Earlier in February, the agency had recovered Rs 19.45 lakh in cash, jewellery worth Rs 1.51 crore and some expensive cars from Ram’s Ranchi home.
‘Govt immersed in quagmire of corruption’
Addressing a press conference, Marandi said that in the INDI alliance rally, Hemant Soren was presented as if he had nothing to do with corruption. “Be it Hemant Soren or his entire government, everyone is immersed in the quagmire of corruption. They repeatedly say that they are being implicated because they are tribals. During his tenure, Hemant Soren worked to completely tarnish the honour and dignity of the tribals,” he maintained.
Rs 350 crore from Congress MP
He said that a mountain of Rs 350 crore notes was seized from the Rajya Sabha member of Congress. “The world saw that too. The counting of notes found here did not end in one day, it continued for several days. If proper investigation is done, the involvement of the present or former Chief Minister in the money will also be seen,” he alleged.
He wondered that if such a huge amount of money had been found in the house of a servant, then if the houses of his assistants, his secretaries or ministers, brokers and middlemen associated with the government were also raided, I don’t know how many crores of rupees will be found.
“The people of INDI Coalition are completely disappointed. They want to win the elections on the strength of money,” he said.
