‘What does he know’: Find out why Amit Shah called Conrad Sangma govt corrupt, Congress to CBI

Jairam Ramesh believes Shah, after the post-poll alliance with NPP, is under duress not to spill the beans on his own coalition government with Sangma's NPP.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh addresses a press conference in presence of party leader Rahul Gandhi during their Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ernakulam | ANI file photo

New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), asking it to summon Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his comments that Meghalaya’s National People’s Party (NPP) was corrupt.

Ramesh wants Shah to furnish details in support of his claim.

During the campaign for the recently-concluded Meghalaya state elections, Shah had said the Conrad Sangma-led NPP government was the “most corrupt”. The BJP, till weeks before the polls, was an alliance partner in the government, but contested the elections separately.

After the NPP, however, emerged as the single largest party in the elections, the two parties came together again in a post-poll alliance to form the government.

In his letter to the CBI, Ramesh contended that since Shah was home minister, he must “surely have had access to information and facts” that led him to the conclusion.

“For some inexplicable reason, the Home Minister who is also the former national President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has failed to act upon the information regarding the corrupt practices and instances of the then Meghalaya government,” Ramesh wrote in the letter.

He, thereafter, asked the CBI director to summon Shah and ask him to “submit all information and facts that led him to stated assessment and investigate the matter”.

He also asked the CBI to investigate whether Shah was “under any undue duress” to suppress the information related to corruption in the Meghalaya government in order to enable the BJP to “support the same Chief Minister after the recent Meghalaya elections”.