New Delhi, May 6 : Trinamool Congress member Saugata Roy on Friday made a veiled reference to Comptroller and Auditor Basic Shashi Kant Sharma, who had earlier labored within the defence ministry, vis-a-vis AgustaWestland chopper scam.
“I wish to ask whether or not you have got questioned the DG, procurement,” Roy requested Defence Minister Manohor Parrikar throughout the dialogue within the Lok Sabha on the high-profile controversy, however didn’t take any name.
The MP from West Bengal’s Dum Dum MP particularly requested Parrikar to checklist what motion he has “taken within the one-and-a-half years in opposition to corruption?” and alleged that whereas the NDA authorities has been “shouting from the housetops towards corruption”, it didn’t have something “particular” to disclose.
“You say that Rs.124 crore bribe has been paid,” Roy pointedly advised Parrikar, and requested him: “What has the CBI underneath your authorities executed in two years? If bribe has been paid, it is best to have recovered it”.
Sharma held the submit of director normal (acquisition) — which the Trinamool MP mistakenly known as “procurement” – within the defence ministry in 2007-10.
Allegedly Sharma’s title or designation as “DG (Acq.)” – brief type of acquisition – figures within the checklist of individuals named by intermediary Christian Michel as documented within the Italian courtroom order.
Bharatiya Janata Party member Nishikant Dubey additionally made a veiled reference to the CAG and few different individuals who proceed to carry constitutional positions.
With one reference, he stated the then Chief of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj had opposed appointment of a former police official within the Nationwide Human Rights Commission.
Of the 1976 batch of Indian Administrative Service, Sharma joined the defence ministry in 2003 as a joint secretary. BJP sources had alleged in 2013-14 that Sharma turned DG acquisition in 2007 and has been “actually controlling” the essential strategy of controversial AgustaWestland chopper purchase.
He continued in the important thing place until 2010 and have become defence secretary later in 2011.