New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to explain the circumstances that led to the agency giving a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler, said reports.
According to reports, the Prime Minister apparently has also asked for the details of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The UPA has been under growing pressure to drop Tytler as a Lok Sabha candidate ever since the CBI cleared him of all charges. And on Wednesday, there were massive protests by Sikhs across Punjab.
The big question now is will the Congress dump Tytler? So far there has been no official word from the Congress on Tytler's fate, but the party knows that it is at risk of losing the Sikh vote.
And it may be left with little choice if the court on Thursday rejects the clean chit given by the CBI.
Now that Congress president Sonia Gandhi is back from her tour of Kerala, the party could take a final call on Tytler on Thursday. The outrage against the Congress giving a ticket to Tytler and the CBI's clean chit to him has grown stronger with journalist Jarnail Singh throwing a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram at a press conference.