Senior Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday fired a fresh salvo at the party for its "lapses in handling" of Jay Shah's case.
Sinha, while talking to the media, also said that his party has lost "the moral high ground" by embroiling itself in the corruption scandal involving party chief's Amit Shah's entrepreneur son, NDTV.
Adding fuel to the issue, Sinha raised eyebrow over the way the loan was sanctioned to Jay Shah by the Power ministry. "The way (minister) Piyush Goyal defended him, it gives the impression that there's something wrong," he said.
He also questioned the unprecendented way in which Additional Solicitor Genral Tushar Mehta had been roped in to represent a proivate individual in court.
Jay Shah had recently filed a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against news website The Wire for reporting a massive increase in his companies' turnover after the BJP government came to power at the Centre in 2014. It also stated how the government and private companies sanctioned him huge amount of loans. BJP has denied all the allegations.
"The government should order an inquiry because too many government departments are involved," he was quoted as saying. "The BJP has lost the high moral ground of zero tolerance on corruption," he added.
Sinha had, last month, openly the economic policies of the current government calling the major decisions like GST rollout and demonetisation an "unmitigated economic disasters".
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Sinha then ran a status-check on the economy, noting a shrinking of private investment, the 바카라collapse바카라 of industrial production, saying that 바카라demonetisation has proved to be an unmitigated economic disaster.바카라 Sinha also wrote about how a badly implemented GST played 바카라havoc바카라 with businesses and that demonetisation only added fuel to a fire that had already started.
