The Congress on Tuesday accused the Modi government of hiding behind "the veil of technicalities" in not acting on complaints against Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary who, it alleged, has been its "collaborator in violation of the Constitution".
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), which is directly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has abdicated its constitutional responsibility by not acting on two complaints received against CVC K V Chowdary and that the PM has "scored a zero in his test of governance".
He claimed bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi is one of the complainants against Chowdary but the government has not acted against the CVC and is now citing technicalities to wriggle out. He told reporters that Chaturvedi had in July 2017 provided "documentary evidence" of corruption in an infrastructure scam.
"The government sleeps over his complaint and after two years comes up to say that we have not framed any guidelines for action against the CVC. We want to ask Prime Minister Modi, why is there no action against the CVC on the complaint," Singhvi said.
He said it was "an untenable excuse to save its 'Collaborator in violating the Constitution', CVC K V Chowdary from the clutches of law."
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