BJP hails raids at CM's premises, refutes charge of CBI misuse

The Himachal Pradesh BJP leaders today hailed the CBI raids against chief minister Virbhadra Singh and refuted the allegations of Congress that the Centre was misusing the CBI.
The former chief minister and leader of the Opposition, P K Dhumal said that the matter pertained to previous UPA government in which Virbhadra Singh was Steel Minister and after some diaries surfaced, a PIL was filed in Delhi High Court, seeking a CBI enquiry.
Dhumal said that it was strange that the Congress ministers knew about possible registration of FIR against the CM and expressed solidarity with Singh while the BJP leaders and others were totally ignorant about it.

It "indicates that some Congress leaders were in touch with the developments taking place at the Centre", he said.
Former state party president, Suresh Bharadwaj, who is also the chief Whip of BJP Legislature Party said that the charge of Congress minister that the Centre was trying to "destabilise" the Congress government and misusing the investigation agencies to implicate Singh in false cases was "false and baseless".
The BJP believes in the constitution and abides by it and there was no question of pressurising or misusing the CBI, he added.

CBI today raided the official residence of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in Shimla and 12 other places in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case on a day his daughter was getting married.

Bharadwaj said that the BJP MLAs had been making these allegations against Virbhadra Singh "for a long time and now these allegations are proving to be correct and soon the truth would come out".
Under the circumstances, the Chief Minister should immediately resign to facilitate a free and fair probe, he added.
The Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) president Sukhvinder Singh Sukkhu accused the BJP government of wreaking political vendetta against the CM and condemned the raids.