MUMBAI: Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP of using the former Bihar Police Director General (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey to smear Maharashtra, and said that he was now being “rewarded.”
While Pandey has rejected speculation that his ‘political ambitions’ motivated his actions or statements in the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, the Maharashtra BJP called the state congressional accusations “unfounded”.
“The Bihar DGP whoever was used for this defamation is being blatantly rewarded. His voluntary retirement says it all, “Maharashtra congressional spokesman Sachin Sawant said here.
While a government official has to give three months’ notice before resigning, Pandey’s resignation was immediately accepted, he said.
“He is expected to be rewarded,” Sawant said.
The BJP did not sympathize with actor Sushant Singh Rajput, but felt a political opportunity to use his death for the upcoming Bihar elections and now for the proposed new film city in Uttar Pradesh, he claimed.
“The Sushant case has now been shelved. There is a new narrative about an alleged link between Bollywood and drugs. The link between drugs is a pretext, but the real reason is (they want to) control and manipulate the film industry.” said the spokesman for Congress. alleged.
Congress has no objection to the Office of Narcotics Control investigating the drugs angle in the Rajput case, he said.
“NCB has an office in Mumbai, why didn’t you investigate it earlier? The NCB did not make any arrests in the FIR related to the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput. All arrests were made in the alleged drug use case, it has nothing to do with the death case, “he said.
The Union government declared in Parliament that the NCB had no actionable input to link Mumbai film industry to drugs, the congressional spokesperson said.
Speaking to reporters in Patna earlier that day, Pandey dismissed allegations linking his alleged proactive stance in the Rajput case to political ambitions.
While in Delhi, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut alleged while speaking to a Marathi news channel that he “had a political agenda and he is going to be rewarded for it.”
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