Press Trust of India / Chaibasa (Jharkhand) Nov 13, 2009, 20:41 IST
Beleaguered former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who faces the charge of money laundering, today apprehended threat to his life and played the tribal card alleging he was being harassed because of his tribal identity.
"There is threat to my life. There is a conspiracy to annihilate me. I am a victim of conspiracy. I know who are doing all this. Whatever being published in the media is baseless," Koda told newsmen just before entering Chaibasa, about 250 km from Ranchi.
"I am being harassed as I am a tribal belonging to a poor family," said Koda who was without any security.
Koda said he was heading towards his Jagannathpur assembly constituency for electioneering and not to his paternal home near here.
Asked whether he had informed the IT and ED, the former chief minister said he had sent a letter to both the agencies seeking permission to leave home in Ranchi.
The income tax department officials are tightlipped as to how Koda left home as it had claimed earlier that his interrogation was on.
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