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Former Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik addresses a press conference in Jaipur on November 17, 2022. (Image: PTI)
On Tuesday, the Congress also asked why the CBI or ED was not knocking at Madhav’s door after Malik alleged his involvement in corruption, a charge strongly rejected by the former BJP general secretary.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Ram Madhav on Thursday sent a defamation notice to former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik for “deliberately and maliciously hatching a conspiracy to defame him”. Malik alleged during an interview that Madhav tried to bribe him. 300 crores with him.
In his legal notice to Malik, Madhav said, “Malik made untrue and defamatory statements to remain relevant in the political circle.”
“You addressee is well known in political circles, however, recently because of your fading popularity and relevance, and to remain relevant in the social life of this country, by way of sensationalism to attract public attention You have made certain untrue, defamatory, and objectionable statements on the said YouTube channel in an interview on 08.04.2023 in conspiracy with the interviewer of ‘DB Dialogue’,” reads the notice.
On Tuesday, the Congress asked why the CBI or the ED were not knocking at Madhav’s door following Malik’s allegation of corruption, a charge the former BJP general secretary rejected outright.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said in October 2021, Malik had claimed that when he was the governor of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior RSS functionary asked him to clear two files. 300 crore was offered as a bribe. He claimed that in an interview given to a YouTube channel on Monday, Malik named the RSS functionary as Madhav.
When asked about this, Madhav told the news agency PTI The RSS leader had said that these were “completely false allegations”. “The CBI has already thoroughly investigated the matter. I will be filing defamation charges very soon against the peddlers of these false allegations.”
Malik was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir between August 2018 and October 2019 and in October 2021 he was the Governor of Meghalaya.
“Why is the CBI or ED not knocking at Ram Madhav’s door when a former governor has exposed him,” Khera said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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