The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the misuse of the Central Bureau of Investigation by the Congress led-United Progressive Alliance government.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari, in his inaugural address at the party's national executive meeting that began in Patna on Saturday, said that the BJP strongly demand a JPC probe into the misuse of the CBI.
Gadkari charged the Congress for forcing the CBI to work for its political designs.
He described the CBI as the 'Congress Bureau of Intimidation.' "The CBI has simply become a tool
of intimidation," Gadkari said.
He said that latest revelation by an officer in the context of the Bhopal gas tragedy has reinforced the fear that the Congress is continuing this strategy to cow down opponents or to let free from law their 'acquaintances' like Bofors scam accused Ottavio Quatrrochhi, and WarrenAnderson, former CEO of United Carbide and wanted in the Bhopal tragedy case.
BJP national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad at a press meet later said that the CBI was misused in several case including the Gujarat riots of 2002 and fodder scam involving former Union minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.