Ploy to bail out PM: Team Anna

Team Anna on Friday dismissed the CBI’s preliminary enquiry into the complaint on coal blocks allotments as a “pretence” meant to give Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit.

Team Anna on Friday dismissed the CBI’s preliminary enquiry into the complaint on coal blocks allotments as a “pretence” meant to give Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit.

“The CBI is under the government. How will the agency investigate the PM? It’s laughable, it’s a pretence. We know the outcome of this probe. It will give a clean chit to Singh,” said Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal.

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“We’ve said we are ready to be probed. Then why is the PM afraid? There is nothing wrong if the people suspect there was wrongdoing (in the allotments),” he said.