Vijayvargiya: PM has told CBI not to spare guilty

Kolkata: BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not to spare the guilty in connection with any investigation.

“Prime minister Narendra Modi has told the CBI not to spare the guilty in any investigation. Those named in the Narada FIR will surely land in jail,” Mr Vijayvargiya, who is also the party’s observer for Bengal, said at a meeting in Burdwan on Tuesday.

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh followed suit. “No one knows what will happen to the TMC. Some of those leaders may be arrested. Whenever I say something, it comes out to be true. Last time I said the CBI will inquire into the Narada sting operation and it came to be true,” he said.

Mr Ghosh added that though the CPI(M) and Congress may not be able to contest all the seats in the panchayats but the BJP will manage it. “The panchayat polls will be the quarter-final, the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 will be the semi-final and the Assembly polls (in 2021) will be the final. We will leave only the seats in the Darjeeling hills for the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha,” he said.

Reacting to Mr Vijayvargiya’s comment, Trinamul Congress general secretary Partha Chatterjee said, “we have been saying for a long time that the investigation in the Saradha, Rose Valley and Narada is a ‘political conspiracy’. Today, Mr Vijayvargiya admitted that the CBI is working in the direction of the BJP. The cat has come out of the bag. They are trying to fight us with a political vendetta and not politically,” Mr Chatterjee said.