New Delhi: Questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation at his house in New Delhi today, April 28, former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik said that this was harassment over what he told The Wire in an explosive interview on the Narendra Modi government’s role during the Pulwama terror attack of 2019.
On April 21, Malik was informed by the CBI that he would be questioned on the Reliance Insurance issue – the scheme that RSS and BJP leader Ram Madhav was allegedly pushing Malik to pass while he was the governor of Jammu and Kashmir, and which Malik cancelled.
Malik is a BJP leader and has been governor not just of J&K but four other states.
In the interview to The Wire, Malik had said that he had sent a letter asking for liberal changes to the insurance scheme, which he said prompted a visit from an upset Madhav to his house.
Today, CBI is learned to have quizzed Malik over the Reliance Insurance scheme, on whose interest the deal was struck and on Ram Madhav for a total of four hours.
“I am the complainant in this case. There is no need for the CBI to ask the complainant questions in this manner. This is only harassment because of what I have said on Pulwama,” Malik said.
In The Wire interview, Malik had said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval asked him to “keep quiet” when he had told them in the aftermath of the terror attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans that the government’s decision to not sanction a helicopter is what may have led to the outcome.
Today, Malik said that he will not shy away from repeating these revelations.
“I will continue saying it. I will tour the whole of north India and the south also. Till elections, I will keep this going, I will keep this issue alive like Bofors. Pulwama and all this has really seeped down to the people. They will be thrown out in the forthcoming elections,” he said.
Malik said the CBI has not spoken to him of a future visit.