Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has alleged that the government was pressuring the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to let Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi off the hook in the Bofors case.
Singh told a joint rally of the Shiv Sena-BJP at Shivaji Park in Mumbai late Saturday evening that despite an Interpol Red corner notice against Quattrocchi, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government recently withdrew all cases against him.
"When the NDA (BJP-led National Democratic Alliance) was in power at the centre, we had frozen Quattrocchi's bank accounts in London," Singh said.
Singh spoke at the last joint rally, along with Sena executive president Udhav Thackeray, ahead of the October 13 assembly elections in the state.
His remarks came barely an hour after Congress president Sonia Gandhi addressed a massive election rally at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, around five kilometres from Shivaji Park.
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