State avoiding CBI probe to save its ministers: BJP

The party chief cites the Shyamal Sen Commission as an eyewash. “It has been put up to delay the process. She (Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) had demanded a CBI inquiry into every little thing but now she is trying to avoid it for a scam as huge as this (Saradha),” he said.

Sinha also took a dig at the very law proposed against Ponzi firms.

“The Centre had rejected both the erstwhile CPM’s and the present ruling government’s anti-ponzi scheme bill. Why didn’t the state rework on it according to the their instructions?” Sinha said

He added the other three states affected by the scam — Bihar,Assam and Tripura — have already asked for a CBI intervention. “Our government is the only one displaying a continued aversion to it.”

Condeming the support lent by the CPM to the Raghuram Rajan panel’s report which did not identify West Bengal as a backward state,Sinha said “they should have opposed the Centre because the state would lose out on a lot of funds”.

He,however,asserted that “any extra money allocated to the cash-strapped West Bengal” needed “to be judiciously used and not squandered on utsavs and donations”,which is what,he alleged,“the CM has been doing for last two-and-a-half year”.

“She has been spending recklessly in festivities while the roads are still lying unrepaired,” Sinha said.