Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha Member, Subramanian Swamy has reportedly criticised the decision to sack former CBI director Alok Verma. Opposing the removal of Verma, Swamy said that lessons needed to be learned from the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
Swamy told Jansatta, “I had told Justice Patnaik (retired). You don’t watch TV properly,” adding that he was pleased to see that the Indian Express had printed Justice Patnaik’s statement. “We have to learn from Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. We cannot circumvent the Indian Constitution,” Swami reportedly said.
When asked if he agreed with Patnaik’s statement that there were no evidence of corruption against Verma, Swamy said, “100 per cent.”
AK Patnaik on Friday said that there was no evidence of corruption against Alok Verma and that the CVC’s say cannot be the last word. Patnaik, a former judge of the Supreme Court, had been charged by the apex court to monitor the CVC probe against Verma. Patnaik had also criticised the Narendra Modi-led high-power committee’s decision to remove Verma from the position of CBI Director on corruption charges and called it a hasty decision.