Sitaram Yechury says CBI head removed to ‘protect Narendra Modi government’s handpicked officers’ 

Sitaram Yechury. 

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, on Wednesday, slammed the government for “illegally” removing the Central Bureau of Investigation director, Alok Verma, and described it as an act of protecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s “handpicked” officers.

Yechury also said the government got panicked by the feud between CBI director Alok Verma and special director Rakesh Asthana and irrationally removed both the officials, ignoring the Supreme Court’s order of a two-year term for the director.

The illegal removal of CBI Chief by Modi government to protect their own handpicked officer, against whom serious charges of corruption are being investigated, points to attempts at a serious cover-up to protect his direct links to the BJP's top political leadership. https://t.co/A6BM8RY5Ao

— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) October 24, 2018

To ensure that the CBI is not a “caged parrot”, Supreme Court had granted protection to the Chief from govt’s whims and fancies by giving him a two-year tenure. What is Modi govt trying to hide by its panic move? #BJPCorruption

— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) October 24, 2018

A number of compromised officials with dubious records have been inducted into top agencies in the past four years. That is not just due to poor ‘governance’. But it is due to malafide intention to target political opposition and save their own under investigation.

— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) October 23, 2018

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