BSP, Left demand probe into alleged threats against Mayawati

Tue, Jul 22 07:04 PM

New Delhi, July 22 (PTI) Opposition BSP and Left parties today demanded a probe by a House Committee into the alleged misuse of CBI against BSP Chief Mayawati in order to "force" her to support the UPA government. BSP members first created ruckus during Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's speech on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's confidence, forcing Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to adjourn the House for lunch asking the Amethi MP to make his statement after lunch hour.

As the House reassembled, BSP leader Brajesh Pathak alleged that the Congress leadership was using CBI to "pressurise" his party and its leader Mayawati to support the UPA government in today's confidence vote. He claimed that the investigating officer had given a clean chit to Mayawati in the disproportionate assets case but it was being reopened "at the level of the CBI director.

" "We were told to take a decision (of supporting UPA) or face consequences," he said referring to a CBI officer, whom he did not name. Pathak, waiving papers pertaining to investigations into the Mayawati case, sought an independent inquiry into the issue by a House Committee.

Chatterjee agreed to receive the "papers" and said: "I am sending the papers to the Home Minister for an investigation." But later asked Home Minister Shivraj Patil to return the papers after protests from BSP that they did not have faith in the government.

"I promise I will give serious through (to the demand)," the Speaker said. PTI.

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