Suvendu Adhikari got here unannounced, didn’t meet him: SG Tushar Mehta on impropriety expenses

Amid allegations of impropriety, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta on Friday denied assembly West Bengal BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari at his residence.
Clarifying Trinamool Conbgress’ cost a few “meeting” between the 2, Mehta stated: “Suvendu Adhikari did come to my residence-cum-office yesterday (Thursday) at around 3 pm, unannounced. Since I was already in a pre-scheduled meeting in my chamber, my staff requested him to sit in the waiting room of my office building and offered him a cup of tea.”

It was solely after Mehta’s assembly was over that his PPS knowledgeable him about Adhikari’s arrival, he stated. “When my meeting was over and thereafter my PPS informed me about his arrival, I requested my PPS to convey Mr. Adhikari my inability to meet him and apologise as he had to wait. Mr. Adhikari thanked my PPS and left without insisting to meet me. The question of my meeting with Mr. Adhikari, therefore, does not arise.”
The clarification from SG Mehta got here hours after TMC wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in search of his removing over the alleged assembly.
The letter, written by TMC MPs Derek O’Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, and Mahua Moitra, said that the assembly between Adhikari and the Solicitor General “reeks of impropriety” because the Nandigram MLA is an accused within the Narada and Saradha instances the place probes are underway.
The Solicitor General is representing the CBI within the Narada case within the Supreme Court and the excessive court docket, alongside advising the nationwide probe company within the Saradha rip-off, they stated.

The assembly between Adhikari and the Solicitor General “not only reeks of impropriety, there is a direct conflict of interest and also taints the position of the second highest law officer of the country, the Solicitor General”, the letter stated.
The TMC MPs urged the Prime Minister to take crucial steps for the removing of Mehta from the publish in an effort to preserve the “neutrality and integrity” of the workplace of the Solicitor General of India.