The Congress Party on Wednesday congratulated Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Sanjiv Chaturvedi and said that the exposes made by him has raised many questions against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his fake promises.
"Our best wishes to Anshu Gupta and to Sanjiv Chaturvedi for getting the Magsaysay Award. It also raises some fundamental questions to be answered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sanjiv Chaturvedi has been given this award for exposing corruption and scams in AIIMS. J.P. Nadda, who was then the BJP general secretary, had written against Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Instead of taking action there-on, the Prime Minister had removed his own party senior leader from BJP, who was then the Union Health Minister and inducted Nadda as the Union Health Minister," Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told ANI.
"Now will Prime Minister have courage of conviction to at least change the portfolio of Nadda if not remove him all together? Will Prime Minister take action on the exposes by Sanjiv Chaturvedi? Now Sanjiv has himself been constrained to say that he is deeply disappointed with the Prime Minister as also by the functioning of PMO. He has also now said that he wrongly believed Prime Minister's promise of 'na khaunga, na khane dunga'. Will Prime Minister look within and tell the nation the truth of his false promises that he made only to come to power?" he added.
Chaturvedi and rights activist Anshu Gupta are among the five persons from India, Laos, Myanmar and the Philippines who will receive the coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award.
The 2002-batch Indian Forest Service officer, who is currently involved in a prolonged battle with the Centre over his tough stance on graft, was the former Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
Chaturvedi initiated action in around 200 corruption cases during his stint as the AIIMS CVO.