Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader L K Advani on Tuesday trained his guns on the Central Bureau of Investigation for dropping the name of Italian Businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi from Interpol's Red Corner notice list and demanded a probe into the agency's role during the last five years.
"This is a serious decision. It is not a question of Quattrocchi alone but the entire role of the agency during the last five years which should be probed. It is a very serious issue. They have become the 'dastak' or hand-tool in the hands of politicians," Advani, while campaigning in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
In New Delhi, BJP spokesman Prakash Javdekar accused the Congress of using the CBI to help Quattrocchi, the 'personal family friend of the Gandhi family', and that the agency had now become the Congress Bureau of Investigation.
"CBI has now become Congress Bureau of Investigation. They are following the diktats of Mrs (Sonia) Gandhi. They wanted to clear the file before the NDA government takes over," Javdekar said.
The BJP termed the controversy, which has erupted just two days before the third-phase of the general elections, as Congress ka haath Quattrocchi ke saath (Congress is hand-in-hand with Quattrocchi).
"Congress has given slogan: Congress ka haath, aam admi ke saath (Congress is hand-in-hand with the common man). After five years it has been proven Congress ka haath, Quattrocchi ke saath. So this is what Congress has done with the country," Javdekar said.
"Their only mission was to free the personal family friends of the Gandhi family and they have accomplished it," he said.
