Sushil Modi's kin had direct links with Srijan scam accused: Tejashwi Yadav
Patna, June 28 : Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday alleged Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi's family has direct links with the accused in the multi-crore Srijan scam case involving an NGO that allegedly pilfered funds meant for government welfare schemes.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader also asked why the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has not registered a case against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi in the scam despite knowledge of their involvement.
"Sushil Modi's sister Rekha Modi and niece Urvashi Modi received crores of rupees from Srijan scam. Here are bank statements of Srijan to prove transactions," Tejashwi Yadav said in a series of tweets attaching the statement of Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti Ltd's Indian Bank's Bhagalpur branch account in which few transactions showed the names of Rekha Modi and Urvashi Modi.
"Sushil Modi and Nitish Kumar are direct parties in the Rs 2,500 crore scam but CBI not naming and questioning them. Why?
"Rs 2,500 crore of state exchequer were looted for years in Srijan scam under the able guidance of Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister Sushil Modi and sound and known patronage of Nitish Kumar," he said attaching a letter written by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to the Bihar government in September 2013.
"Why the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister didn't act on complaints from RBI and then Finance Ministry?"
His remarks came a day after Sushil Modi fired fresh corruption salvos at Yadav alleging him of serving as the "handling and storage agent" of a leading steel company in the country.
Sushil Modi alleged that Yadav did not declare this information in his affidavit before the Election Commission when he made his electoral debut in the Bihar Assembly polls of 2015 and accused him of evading taxes on the earnings made in aforementioned capacity.
Yadav on Thursday alleged that Nitish Kumar had the knowledge of the Srijan scam but turned a blind eye. "I am giving proofs that Nitish Kumar was very much in loop and know to things related to Srijan scam but he turned a blind eye and didn't take cognisance of scam and allowed the rampant loot of state exchequer.
"His party leaders were directly involved in this plundering to fund him," he said.
The Srijan scam involves Bhagalpur-based NGO Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti Ltd, which used to provide vocational training to women. The NGO allegedly pilfered funds meant for government welfare schemes from the bank accounts of the Bhagalpur district administration.
Nitish Kumar had on August 18, 2017 recommended a CBI to probe in the scam after RJD chief Lalu Prasad accused him of "murdering democracy" in Bihar.
In August last year, the CBI registered 10 cases related to the scam and filed four fresh case in June this year.
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Guarantees: Siddaramaiah accuses Maharashtra BJP of 'spreading lies,' warns of legal action
Mumbai/Bengaluru, Nov 16: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said he was considering taking legal action against the BJP’s Maharashtra unit alleging it 'spread lies' about the five guarantees implemented by his government.
Addressing a press conference in Mangalwedha in Maharashtra, Siddaramaiah said: “They (BJP) have given a false advertisement in order to mislead the people of Maharashtra." Furthermore, he said he was considering filing a suit against the Maharashtra BJP for spreading lies about the guarantee schemes and its implementation. The Chief Minister said all the five guarantees have been effectively implemented in Karnataka benefiting crores of people.
The CM, his deputy D K Shivakumar and a host of Karnataka ministers, who are campaigning in Maharashtra for elections are reaching out to the people on the five guarantees being implemented in their state.
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These five guarantees are 'Gruha Jyoti' offering up 200 units of free electricity for household connection, 'Gruha Lakshmi' providing Rs 2,000 to the women heads of BPL families, 'Shakti' fare-free bus travel scheme for women, 'Yuva Nidhi' offering Rs 3,000 and Rs 1,500 to unemployed graduates and diploma holders respectively and 'Anna Bhagya' food security scheme for BPL families.
Siddaramaiah asked the Maharashtra leaders to visit Karnataka and see for themselves if the guarantees have been implemented or not.
Attacking the BJP-led Centre for ‘injustice’ to states in the devolution of taxes, the Chief Minister said Karnataka every year pays more than Rs 4.5 lakh crore as central tax and in return gets only Rs 60,000 crore.
"According to my information, Maharashtra is paying Rs 8.78 lakh crore, whereas the Maharashtra government is getting Rs 1.30 lakh crore. That means the Government of India is causing injustice to Karnataka and Maharashtra though Maharashtra is number one and Karnataka is number two in the country in tax collection," the Chief Minister said.
According to him, Maharashtra government was getting 15 paise for each rupee it pays, while Karnataka gets about 13 to 14 paise out of every rupee. Also, the CM said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that the five guarantee schemes could not be implemented and if at all implemented, the state governments doing so will go bankrupt. While this was the case, the BJP has ironically come up with guarantees in Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
