Spokesperson: Shri Pawan Khera: He said that some very startling brazen corruption came out in the CAG reports this year on the ‘Bharatmala Project’, on the ‘Dwarka Expressway Project’, on the ‘Ayushman Bharat Project’. We remember 10 years ago, when a particular gentleman called Vinod Rai leaked draft reports to his friends in the media, through his friends in the RSS.

Ramlila Maidan would see activity, prime time channels would show 24x7 what was happening in Ramlila Maidan, now nothing - total, pin drop silence, not even in the entertainment section of the newspaper, or the television channels. Do you see any mention of CAG? That has resulted into more brazenness in the government because within days of these damning CAG reports, the officers who were in-charge of auditing these projects, were transferred, summarily transferred, shamelessly transferred, immediately transferred. Not only that a mail was sent in Mumbai by the CAG saying that all field work should stop, here is the copy of that. Notonly did they throttle a seemingly independent autonomous institution, they do it shamelessly because they are not afraid of the media anymore. They are not afraid of the civil society any more. Saturday, October 21, 2023