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ShareRanchi: Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Maken today regretted that former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda was allowed to continue in office for too long and said the probe into the multi-crore scam would be taken to its logical conclusions.
"There is no two opinions over Madhu Koda being allowed for a longer period (in office). But you know about the political situation then," Maken said when asked whether he regretted not having carried out the party's threat to withdraw support to Koda government two years ago.
Maken was the party's Jharkhand affairs incharge then and had set a 60-day ultimatum on November 15, 2007, to Koda to fulfil a 19-point charter of demands, including curbing corruption or face withdrawal of Congress' outside support.
"The Congress openly stood against corruption at that time while other parties supporting Koda patted him saying he was doing a good work," Maken added. Asserting that the Congress had initiated the movement that paved the way for things to unfold now, Maken assured that the scam would be taken to its logical conclusions.
Reacting to BJP President Rajnath Singh's apprehension that the probe into the Rs 2000 crore hawala and illegal investment scam might be hushed up after the assembly elections, Maken said "Rajnath Singh ought not nurse such apprehension. If necessary, the case could be given to any agency, including the CBI, for further probe, covering the BJP and the Koda regimes."
