The Congress has alleged that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre was hand in glove with the Biju Janata Dal government in Odisha and had stalled a probe into the chit fund and mining scams in the state as part of a "deal" with the regime. Modi acted like a ventilator and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as an oxygen cylinder; Naveen Patnaik happened to be the patient as the CBI probe into the chit fund scam slowed down, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh told reporters in Bhubaneswar last week. The reason? "To get the regional party's support in Parliament in return," surmised Ramesh.
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