PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
Embroiled in the Jenny case, Congress leader and the chairman of the party’s election management committee Harak Singh Rawat has said that he is ready for a court monitored Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the 23 year old case which has resurfaced recently.
Interacting with the media persons at the Congress Bhawan here on Monday, Rawat said that since there is a BJP government at the centre and the central investigation agencies are under it, he has no faith in them unless the probe is monitored by the court. Rawat raised apprehension that his DNA report can be tempered with if the CBI probe is not monitored by court. Rawat claimed that he will take retirement from politics if he is found involved in the case and the allegations levelled by Jenny are found correct.
The Congress leader said that the State and the Central governments worked in tandem as part of a conspiracy under which Jenny held a press conference in Dehradun on Saturday. He said that the Central and State governments want to divert the attention of the people from the Ankita Bhandari murder case. He said that the BJP government got perturbed by the large scale public anger when the former In-charge of Uttarakhand BJP Dushyant Gautam, the alleged VIP in the Ankita Bhandari murder case was appointed as the governor of Sikkim and then a conspiracy was hatched to divert public attention from Ankita Bhandari murder case.
Rawat said that the Congress demands removal of cabinet ministers Rekha Arya and Ganesh Joshi. He said that it is surprising that the police arrested Girdhari Lal Sahu, the husband of Arya who had levelled serious allegations of corruption against the minister and no investigation is being done in the allegations of corruption.
