Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh over a probe into allegations against a US-based firm responsible for water supply projects worth over Rs 1,000 crore in Assam and claimed that the pace of investigations had slowed after the BJP government came to power in the state.
Assam MP Gaurav Gogoi, in his letter to Singh, demanded a speedy probe by the CBI and claimed that Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, as BJP's state chief, had levelled allegations against a politician, who later joined the BJP and became a minister.
"The allegations of corruption between the officials of the Guwahati Metropolitan Developmental Authority (GMDA) and Louis Berger (US-based firm) are a matter of concern and demand speedy investigation," Gogoi wrote in his letter.
"The Assam government had initiated an investigation by the CID in 2015. Yet after the new government came to power in 2016, the CID investigation has gone slow and they failed to update the Gauhati High Court on many occasions. The high court finally handed over the investigation to the CBI in 2017 after stating that the CID is acting in a partisan manner," he said.
Gaurav Gogoi told PTI, "There has been remarkable change in the pace of investigation after the new government came into power in Assam. It is getting slow day by day."