Graft fighter Anna Hazare has turned his missile towards NCP Supremo Sharad Pawar and has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a CBI inquiry into a Rs 25,000 crore sugar cooperative factories scam. NCP has dubbed him as an RSS agent.
Hazare filed two civil PILs and a criminal PIL underscoring the need for a CBI probe. The petitions allege that fraud had been committed in governance by first burdening sugar cooperative factories with debts and thereafter selling these sick units at a throwaway price, causing loss of Rs 25,000 crore to the government, cooperative sector and members of public.
NCP has asked him if Anna Hazare could ever smell any scam in any of the BJP states? Instead of answering him on the merit of the matter, NCP has accused called him acting at the behest of Sangh
Meanwhile, Anna in his petitions also prays for appointment of a court receiver to take possession of all the properties held by people against whom a prima facie case exists in the alleged scam.
The petitions also demand an inquiry by a Special Investigating Team into the alleged role of “politicians into the sugar cooperative scam, including NCP President and former Union Agriculture Sharad Pawar and his nephew and former Irrigation Minister Ajit Pawar”.
The petitions name both members of the Pawar family as respondents. The petitions also demand setting up of a Commission of Inquiry to probe into the alleged illegal sale of sugar cooperative factories in Maharashtra either by the government or the cooperative banks.
The petitioner claims that the facts and figures mentioned in the petition have been collected from authorities through Right to Information Act.