Reacting to Koda's arrest, the Congress and RJD today said the law will take its own course while opposition BJP termed it as a "delayed action".
"Law is at work as we are committed to law. Congress has zero tolerance towards corruption and there would never be any compromise on it," Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said when asked to comment on Koda's arrest.
Congress leader Keshav Rao said, "We are no party to his alleged corrupt deals as we are only supporting him on the legislative issues in the House and we have never joined the government or part of it."
Denying any political motive behind the arrest, he said, "Law is taking its own course and our party is no way responsible for it." RJD leader Prem Chand Gupta also echoed the similar view and said his party wanted the law to take its own course.
"We have nothing to say and law should take its own course," Gupta told reporters outside Parliament. "We are with the law...We had supported his government to keep the communal forces away from Jharkhand," he added.
BJP leader SS Ahlwalia said the arrest was a delayed action on the part of the government. "The government was going slow on Koda issue because of a diary, seized by the enforcement agencies. After we put pressure on the government, they have now arrested him."
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda was today arrested by the state Vigilance Commission nearly two months after a case was registered against him in a multi-crore hawala scam.
