Demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi follow up on his allegations of corruption allegedly committed by senior leaders of Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) leader Prakash Ambedkar on Friday said the Prime Minister ought to either file a First Information Report (FIR) against these NCP leaders or apologise to Mr. Pawar and the NCP for making defamatory and politically-motivated statements.
Mr. Ambedkar, who is the grandson of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, said that if Mr. Modi failed to file criminal cases against the NCP leaders whom he accused of corruption, then the VBA, along with the Congress and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) would stage agitation against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) “politically-motivated blackmail.”
“On June 27, PM Modi, at a BJP booth workers’ meeting in Bhopal had made multiple allegations of corruption scams involving the NCP and Sharad Pawar to the tune of ₹70,000 crore. These allegations included scams in the irrigation, cooperative bank and mining sectors. A month has passed after the PM’s remarks, but there has been no investigation or filing of any FIRs,” Mr. Ambedkar told mediapersons in Pune.
