PM has not responded to drug nexus probe: Munde

Panjim, March 4 : The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) today said that the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has not responded to their letter for a central probe in the police-politician- drug mafia nexus in Goa.
BJP senior leader Gopinath Munde, who is the party’s election in charge of Goa, said at a press conference that the prime minister is silent on the issue.
Munde’s reaction came after the questions by reporters that the BJP central leadership including North Goa MP Shripad Naik had never raised the drugs issue in the parliament.
“The law and order situation is a state subject and we don’t want to raise it in the parliament,” Munde said adding however the party’s senior leader Arti Mehra, who is the party’s secretary in charge of Goa, had raised the issue with the prime minister through a letter.
“…but there has been no response from him,” said Munde, who is the BJP’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha.
Munde’s comment have comes a couple of weeks after chief minister Digambar Kamat told the media here that the union ministry of personnel which functions under the prime Minister was sitting on the important decision to allow the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the police-politician-drug mafia nexus.
“The chief secretary had written to them (DoPT), but they have not responded. We will write a reminder again,” Kamat had said, adding that there had been no response from the DoPT for nearly a week.