UPA complicit in ‘Q’ issue: BJP

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi, Sept. 28: BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Friday said the complicity of the Congress-led UPA government in the acquittal of key Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi is evident. The sensational disclosure of Sten Lindstorm, principal Swedish investigator, vindicated the BJP assertion that the CBI, at the behest of the UPA government, has been instrumental in ensuring the acquittal of Quattrocchi.

The glaring complicity of the UPA government gets further strengthened by the remark of Mr Lindstorm, who categorically stated that despite Quattrocchi having direct personal links with the Gandhi family, he was denied interrogation even once.

Mr Rudy said that the UPA government had clandestinely intervened in defreezing the London bank accounts holding the Bofors kickback amount. Failure of the government as well as the CBI to disclose the arrest of Quattrocchi even after 17 days of his detention amply reconfirmed the complicity of the UPA government in Quattrocchi’s wrongful acquittal, he said.

The BJP demanded that the nation deserves to know the truth behind the Bofors kickback issue and the government must come clean on all accounts about its alleged complicity in ensuring the acquittal of Quatttrocchi. The complete subversion of the independence of the CBIto protect the interests of one particular family is unfortunate, he said.

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