The Communist Party of India on Wednesday demanded an explanation from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the contradiction between its president Amit Shah's remarks on the Saradha scam and its official statement given in the parliament.
Earlier in the day, the government had told Parliament that it had found no link between the Burdwan blast and the Saradha scam in West Bengal. This contradicts Shah's allegation that the money from the chit fund scam was used in the Burdwan blast.
"There is a big contradiction between what Amit Shah claimed in West Bengal and what government is saying here in parliament. Why this contradiction? The BJP will have to come clean and explain. Why this contradiction between its own president's comment and its own government's reply to parliament? What are the political reasons for this?" CPI leader D Raja told ANI here.
"Amit Shah must regret... what he has been speaking in West Bengal has been proved wrong. The BJP should behave responsibly and explain things properly to the people," he added.
On October 2, a blast in the Burdwan region of West Bengal killed two people and injured one person. The investigating agencies suspect Bangladeshi militant organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen to be behind the blast.
