01-07-2007, 03:50 AM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi/Raipur
Media reports suggesting that the <b>UPA Government may be working to bail out former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi in the MLAs bribery case on Saturday evoked strong reaction from the BJP</b>.
<b>"It will be yet another glaring example of the UPA Government's misuse of the CBI and we will oppose it legally as well as politically,"</b> BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told media persons. This was in reaction to the media reports that the Union Law Ministry has advised the CBI that no case can be made out against<b> Ajit Jogi for allegedly paying Rs 45 lakhs to opposition MLAs to prevent the installation of the BJP Government after 2003 elections</b>.
In a special report, NDTV had claimed that in response to the CBI's request for legal advice, the Law Department has said that Jogi cannot be charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Quoting sources, the TV channel said Law Ministry's advice was that there is no section in the act that covers bribing by a public servant.
<b>The BJP leaders have cried foul because they think it was an open and shut case. BJP leaders had displayed Rs 45 lakh that caretaker Chief Minister Ajit Jogi paid to bribe opposition MLAs after 2003 elections. </b>
Jogi's deal making conversation was also taped and his voice was certified by forensic laboratories.
Following public furore, the Congress had also virtually sidelined the former Chhattisgarh CM, who was supposedly close to Congress President Sonia Gandhi. <b>If the CBI goes by the Law Ministry's advice, Jogi may now escape all action, even a chargesheet.</b>
<b>"This is the worst kind of interpretation, that they also used for Mayawati's case. But I'm sure that the Supreme Court will take action," said Javadekar.</b>
In Raipur, Chhattisgarh BJP spokesperson Saroj Pandey said that the<b> party would launch a mass agitation if the CBI refused to chargesheet Jogi for attempting to stop Raman Singh from becoming the chief minister in December 2003 by bribing MLAs.</b>
Former state BJP General Secretary Virendra Pandey, who claimed Jogi had handed him over Rs 45 lakh, also accused Congress-led Government at the Centre of adopting "double standards" on corruption issue and said if needed they would go to the court.
<b>"Besides a letter written by Jogi himself on the issue, the CBI had also found positive report on the forensic test of the voice of Jogi, taped by me, then why the agency was taking time to file the chargesheet,"</b> asked Virendra Pandey, former BJP General Secretary
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi/Raipur
Media reports suggesting that the <b>UPA Government may be working to bail out former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi in the MLAs bribery case on Saturday evoked strong reaction from the BJP</b>.
<b>"It will be yet another glaring example of the UPA Government's misuse of the CBI and we will oppose it legally as well as politically,"</b> BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told media persons. This was in reaction to the media reports that the Union Law Ministry has advised the CBI that no case can be made out against<b> Ajit Jogi for allegedly paying Rs 45 lakhs to opposition MLAs to prevent the installation of the BJP Government after 2003 elections</b>.
In a special report, NDTV had claimed that in response to the CBI's request for legal advice, the Law Department has said that Jogi cannot be charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Quoting sources, the TV channel said Law Ministry's advice was that there is no section in the act that covers bribing by a public servant.
<b>The BJP leaders have cried foul because they think it was an open and shut case. BJP leaders had displayed Rs 45 lakh that caretaker Chief Minister Ajit Jogi paid to bribe opposition MLAs after 2003 elections. </b>
Jogi's deal making conversation was also taped and his voice was certified by forensic laboratories.
Following public furore, the Congress had also virtually sidelined the former Chhattisgarh CM, who was supposedly close to Congress President Sonia Gandhi. <b>If the CBI goes by the Law Ministry's advice, Jogi may now escape all action, even a chargesheet.</b>
<b>"This is the worst kind of interpretation, that they also used for Mayawati's case. But I'm sure that the Supreme Court will take action," said Javadekar.</b>
In Raipur, Chhattisgarh BJP spokesperson Saroj Pandey said that the<b> party would launch a mass agitation if the CBI refused to chargesheet Jogi for attempting to stop Raman Singh from becoming the chief minister in December 2003 by bribing MLAs.</b>
Former state BJP General Secretary Virendra Pandey, who claimed Jogi had handed him over Rs 45 lakh, also accused Congress-led Government at the Centre of adopting "double standards" on corruption issue and said if needed they would go to the court.
<b>"Besides a letter written by Jogi himself on the issue, the CBI had also found positive report on the forensic test of the voice of Jogi, taped by me, then why the agency was taking time to file the chargesheet,"</b> asked Virendra Pandey, former BJP General Secretary
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