'PM Modi should apologise to Manmohan Singh': Congress leader on CBI closing Air India case

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A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closure report in its probe into the alleged irregularities in the leasing of aircraft by National Aviation Corporation of India Ltd., senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to issue an apology to his predecessor Manmohan Singh and the nation for levelling corruption allegations against the UPA-led government.h...

Ramesh also alleged that the closure of the case was a result of an alliance between the Nationalist Congress Party of Ajit Pawar faction and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)..

"Yesterday, the CBI closed that case because the then minister (Praful Patel) joined the BJP and went into BJP's washing machine..

The closure of the case against Praful Patel by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) served as vindication for the former prime minister, according to Ramesh. ..

The Congress party on Saturday displayed a washing machine on its press conference dais as it taunted the BJP over the CBI filing the closure report against Praful Patel and said the ruling party's "fully automatic washing machine" works on the principle -- "join BJP, case closed". ..

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