CBI providing round-the-clock services to sustain UPA: Sukhbir

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Press Trust of India Ferozepur
Last Updated : Aug 08 2013 | 8:28 PM IST
Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today alleged that the Congress-led UPA government was using the CBI to remain in power.
Badal was responding to questions on the Supreme Court's observation castigating the CBI after dismissing a case of disproportionate assets against BSP supremo Mayawati.
Even the Apex Court has gone to the extent of describing the CBI as a caged parrot and asked the Centre to submit a report regarding granting autonomy to the premier investigating agency, the SAD president said after inducting Ravinder Singh Babaal, a former Chief Parliamentary Secretary of the Congress government, in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
After reluctantly agreeing to provide partial autonomy to CBI, the UPA government is now retracting on it, realising that they would not be able to use the agency for browbeating their allies, he alleged.
Lashing out at the Union Government for making a mockery of the martyrdom of five soldiers killed in an ambush in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector, he said the country was suffering disgrace due to indecisive leadership.
Congress leaders have understood that it was only the SAD-BJP combine which understands the aspirations of grass root level workers and crafts policies according to actual need of the poor, the deputy chief minister added.
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First Published: Aug 08 2013 | 8:28 PM IST

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