‘Requesting your rapid intervention’: In letter to President Murmu, opposition alleges ‘misuse of businesses’
3 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: Leaders of a number of opposition events on Tuesday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, alleging the “misuse” of Central businesses by the federal government to focus on the opposition and sought her intervention.
In a letter to the President, the leaders additionally raised the difficulty of the “stubborn attitude” of the federal government, which isn’t permitting an pressing dialogue on the difficulty of value rise and GST hike that has impacted the proceedings within the Monsoon session up to now.
“We are writing to bring to your attention the continued and intensifying misuse of investigative agencies by the Modi Government as part of a systematic vendetta campaign against its political opponents,” stated the letter, signed by the leaders of the Congress, AAP, RJD and CPI-M amongst others.
“We request for your immediate intervention in the matter,” the leaders added.
Noting that the “law is the law and must be enforced without fear or favour”, they stated, “But it cannot be used, as it is presently being done, arbitrarily, selectively and without any justification whatsoever against prominent leaders of numerous opposition parties.”
“The sole aim of this campaign is to destroy reputations and weaken the forces fighting the BJP ideologically and politically,” the opposition leaders stated.
It can be being carried out to divert the eye of the folks of our nation from their most pressing day-to-day considerations of value rise of important commodities, growing unemployment and lack of livelihoods and mounting insecurity of life, liberty and property, they stated.
NEW DELHI: Leaders of a number of opposition events on Tuesday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, alleging the “misuse” of Central businesses by the federal government to focus on the opposition and sought her intervention.
In a letter to the President, the leaders additionally raised the difficulty of the “stubborn attitude” of the federal government, which isn’t permitting an pressing dialogue on the difficulty of value rise and GST hike that has impacted the proceedings within the Monsoon session up to now.
“We are writing to bring to your attention the continued and intensifying misuse of investigative agencies by the Modi Government as part of a systematic vendetta campaign against its political opponents,” stated the letter, signed by the leaders of the Congress, AAP, RJD and CPI-M amongst others.
“We request for your immediate intervention in the matter,” the leaders added.
Noting that the “law is the law and must be enforced without fear or favour”, they stated, “But it cannot be used, as it is presently being done, arbitrarily, selectively and without any justification whatsoever against prominent leaders of numerous opposition parties.”
“The sole aim of this campaign is to destroy reputations and weaken the forces fighting the BJP ideologically and politically,” the opposition leaders stated.
It can be being carried out to divert the eye of the folks of our nation from their most pressing day-to-day considerations of value rise of important commodities, growing unemployment and lack of livelihoods and mounting insecurity of life, liberty and property, they stated.
