Manish Sisodia arrest | 9 Opposition leaders write to PM Modi about ‘misuse of Central agencies’
That's what the letter affirmed "how the Focal organizations were utilized beginning around 2014 had tainted their appearance and brought up issues about their independence and unbiasedness"
Ankush Pandey
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, nine leaders from eight national parties, including Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Mayor Arvind Kejriwal, and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, accused the government of "misusing Central agencies and office of Governor to settle scores with Opposition parties outside the electoral battlefield."
The letter was also signed by former Union Minister Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. The letter was not signed by Congress.
“The manner in which the Central agencies were used since 2014 had tarnished their image and raised questions about their autonomy and impartiality,” the letter claimed. The confidence of individuals of India in these organizations kept on dissolving".
“Because he was recognized worldwide for transforming the capital's school education, the CBI's recent arrest of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia gave off the impression of a political conspiracy. They stated in the letter that "under Mr. Modi's administration, the maximum number of key politicians booked, arrested, raided, or interrogated by the investigating agencies belonged to the Opposition."
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, nine leaders from eight national parties, including Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Mayor Arvind Kejriwal, and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, accused the government of "misusing Central agencies and office of Governor to settle scores with Opposition parties outside the electoral battlefield."
The letter was also signed by former Union Minister Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. The letter was not signed by Congress.
That's what the letter claimed "how the Focal offices were utilized beginning around 2014 had spoiled their appearance and brought up issues about their independence and fairness. The confidence of individuals of India in these organizations kept on dissolving".
“Because he was recognized worldwide for transforming the capital's school education, the CBI's recent arrest of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia gave off the impression of a political conspiracy. They stated in the letter that "under Mr. Modi's administration, the maximum number of key politicians booked, arrested, raided, or interrogated by the investigating agencies belonged to the Opposition."
Also read: "Interessantly, these agencies went slow on cases against Opposition politicians who joined the BJP. Now, AAP and BJP are fighting over schoolchildren's messages saying "I love Sisodia." Take, for example, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was investigated by the CBI and ED for his role in the Saradha chit fund scam. Similarly, in the Narada sting operation, the CBI and ED targeted Trinamool Congress members Suvendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy; however, after they joined the BJP, the cases did not progress,” the letter continued.
“The actions taken by the Central agencies against Lalu Prasad Yadav (RJD), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena), Azam Khan (Samajwadi Party), Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh (Nationalist Congress Party), and Abhishek Banerjee (Trinamool Congress) sparked suspicion that they were acting as extended wings of the ruling dispensation at the Centre. The letter went on to say that "the timing of the cases lodged or arrests made in many of these cases coincided with elections, making it abundantly clear that they were politically motivated."
"Also, the offices of Governors across the country were acting in violation of the provisions of the Constitution and frequently hindering the governance of States," it added. They were deliberately undermining democratically elected State governments and opting to obstruct governance in accordance with their desires. They became the face of the growing divide between the Centre and States that are not ruled by the BJP, whether it was the Governors of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Punjab, Telangana, or the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.
