Pranab slams Buddhadeb’s demand for Purulia probe
April 30th, 2011 - 6:58 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Slamming the demand for a judicial probe into the Purulia arms drop case by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Saturday questioned what the Left Front was doing for all these years.
“After the arms drop incident, three assembly elections have passed. The fourth is going on. Today an accused is raising allegations and they are making a ruckus over it and demanding judicial probe. What were they doing for all these years? Were they sleeping?” Mukherjee told reporters in Kolkata.
Bhattacharjee Friday demanded a judicial inquiry into the 1995 arms drop case in Purulia.
Bhattacharjee’s demand came within a day of an interview given by prime accused in the case Kim Davy, who claimed the arms were dropped to “destabilise” the state government and that the central government had played the role of a facilitator.
In a separate statement, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) sought a judicial enquiry by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court into the circumstances of the arms drop to uncover the network responsible.
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