BJP Will Launch Countrywide Protest against UPA’s ‘Misuse’ of CBI: Gadkari

BJP chief Nitin Gadkari has said that the party will launch a nationwide protest on May 12 against the UPA government’s alleged misuse of CBI to blackmail political opponents, reported PTI.

Talking to reporters, he said that the opposition parties were ‘harassed and blackmailed’ using the CBI but some parties didn’t have the courage to challenge the Central agency, report said.

Accusing the Congress of using the CBI as a political weapon to silence voices against the government, Gadkari said that the agency has been converted into ‘Congress Bureau of Investigation’, said report.

“It has been used as a tool to pressurise vulnerable Opposition leaders particularly those belonging to BJP, SP and RJD.”

The BJP president alleged that the CBI was used to cover up or white wash offences against Congress and other UPA leaders, report said.

Gadkari claimed that the premier investigating agency was being misused in Gujarat, which voted the party to power for three consecutive terms, said report.

“…The UPA government has taken extraordinary interest to entrust the case of encounter killings in Gujarat to CBI even after the state filed chargesheets against several senior police officers,” he was quoted as saying.