The leader of the Congress alleged that "the Modi government operates mafia-style under a cloak of intimidation and silence.
Digital Desk: The Congress on Wednesday requested that the transfer orders of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) employees who had exposed"corruption" in several schemes be withdrawn accusing the administration of intimidating them.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh claimed, citing a media report on the officers' transfers, that it is the modus operandi of the Modi government to threaten and remove anyone who "exposes" them.
"We demand that these transfer orders should be cancelled immediately, the officers return to the CAG and action must be taken on these mega scams relating to Dwarka Expressway, Bharatmala and Ayushman Bharat," he said in a post on X.
The leader of the Congress alleged that "the Modi government operates mafia-style under a cloak of intimidation and silence. Anyone who discloses its corrupt methods is either threatened or removed.
He claimed that three CAG officers, who disclosed "massive scams" in government initiatives in a report presented to Parliament during the Monsoon Session, are the most recent victims.
The CAG study highlighted scams involving social and infrastructural programmes. In addition to a diversion of Rs 3,600 crore from highway projects, poor bidding procedures, and a 60% cost inflation of the Bharatmala initiative, it also recorded cost inflation of the Dwarka Motorway of 1400% and tendering violations.
"Not only that, an audit of the Ayushman Bharat scheme showed lakhs of claims made to dead patients and at least 7.5 lakh beneficiaries linked to a single mobile number," he further stated.
The three CAG officers in charge of reporting on the Ayushman Bharat and Dwarka Motorway frauds, according to Ramesh, were allegedly reassigned "to hide the blatant corruption in the Modi Government, despite the fact that the CAG is supposed to be an independent body."
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