Taking the corruption issue to President Pratibha Patil’s court, the BJP on Friday complained to her about an alleged scam to the tune of `63,000 crores in developmental works carried out in the Northeast and asked her to direct the authorities to carry out a detailed investigation into the “loot”.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who led a party delegation to the president, handed over a memorandum on the issue and also a copy of the party’s report on scams in the Northeast.
In the report, the party claimed that if the level of corruption in the region was quantified, it could be to the tune of `63,000 crores.
Mr Gadkari said, “The scandals in the Northeast have broken all records... There is a scam in PDS due to which poor are not getting their quota of rice, which is sold in Bangladesh.”