Dattatreya firm on CBI probe against AP CM
Union Minister of State for Urban Affairs Bandaru Dattatreya yesterday maintained that the Bharatiya Janata Party's Andhra Pradesh unit 'stood by its demand' for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the corruption charges against Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu and his Telugu Desam Party
government in the state.
Addressing the media in Hyderabad, Dattatreya, who is also the state BJP president, asserted that his party's 100-point chargesheet against the TDP government had not been withdrawn.
During the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, Dattatreya had
demanded a CBI enquiry into the agreements reached by the Naidu government with private power developers including the 'BPL deal' and the eight short-gestation power projects in the state.
The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India in his 1996-97 audit report had found that the debt-equity ratio was changed to the advantage of the private developers.
Further, he termed the revision of the cost of BPL's 250 MW thermal power station at Ramagundam by Rs 3.59 billion -- from Rs 18.52 billion to Rs 22.11 billion for an additional 20 MW -- as a 'vitiation of the bid process'.
On the eight short-gestation power projects for a cumulative capacity of 1,623 MW, the report faulted the government for not not examining their feasibility.
Dattatreya said his ministry would bring in a bill to modify
the Urban Land Ceilings Act without affecting its slum development programme.
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