Stung via way of means of a letter from competition events to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging the misuse of probe businesses towards rivals, the BJP has determined to strike returned thru a sequence of press meetings in 9 states.
The press meets had been organised withinside the domestic states of the competition leaders who wrote to PM Modi on Sunday, like Delhi, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Bengal and Kerala.
The BJP`s method is to challenge the letter signatories as corrupt leaders who’re frightened of being investigated, say sources. Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari held the primary of those interactions withinside the capital. For the alternative states, the BJP has fielded leaders like Suvendu Adhikari (Bengal), Sanjay Jaiswal (Bihar), Brijesh Pathak (Uttar Pradesh), and Sanjay Bandi (Telangana).
The competition leaders wrote to PM Modi days after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Manish Sisodia’s arrest in a case concerning a brand new liquor coverage for Delhi. The coverage became released in November 2021 however withdrawn 9 months later after Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena requested the CBI to research what he known as corruption withinside the distribution of liquor licenses.
The Congress became lacking withinside the letter signed via way of means of Chief Ministers K Chandrashekar Rao, Mamata Banerjee, Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal amongst others. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote a solo letter. “We desire you’ll agree that India continues to be a democratic country. The blatant misuse of principal businesses towards the individuals of the competition seems to indicate that we’ve got transitioned from being a democracy to an autocracy,” the letter said.
“Out of the whole wide variety of key politicians booked, arrested, raided or interrogated via way of means of the research businesses below your management due to the fact that 2014, the most belongs to the competition. Interestingly, research businesses cross gradual on instances towards competition politicians who be a part of the BJP,” it alleged.
Alleging that Mr Sisodia became arrested “with out a shred of evidence” towards him, the letter said: “Since 2014, there was a marked upward push withinside the wide variety of raids conducted, instances lodged towards and arrest of the competition leaders. Be it Lalu Prasad Yadav (Rashtriya Janata Dal), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena), Azam Khan (Samajwadi Party), Nawab Malik, Anil Deshmukh (NCP), Abhishek Banerjee (TMC), principal businesses have frequently sparked suspicion that they have been running as prolonged wings of the ruling dispensation on the centre. The BJP has denied accusations of politically encouraged arrests beforehand of the 2024 country wide election.