Dehradun: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Uttarakhand met Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday and expressed their gratitude for his recommendation to have the Ankita Bhandari murder case investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Among the dozen and a half BJP MLAs who met Dhami at the Chief Minister’s camp office were Premchand Agarwal, Khajan Das, Kishore Upadhyay, Sahdev Pundir, Savita Kapoor, Asha Nautiyal, Renu Bisht, Brijbhushan Gairola, and Shaktilal Shah.
After meeting Dhami, Tehri MLA Upadhyay said that the MLAs met the Chief Minister to discuss the situation in the state and told him that he had taken a good decision by recommending a CBI investigation into the Ankita murder case, in accordance with the wishes of her parents and public sentiment.
Upadhyay said that the MLAs expressed their gratitude to the Chief Minister for this.
Actress Urmila Sanawar, who claims to be the wife of expelled former BJP MLA Suresh Rathore, recently released a video and an alleged audio recording of her conversation with Rathore on social media. In it, she claimed to reveal the alleged ‘VIP’ involved in the Ankita murder case, which caused a stir in the state’s politics.
Following this, various political parties, including the Congress, and social organizations were continuously protesting, demanding a CBI investigation into the entire case. During this time, the Chief Minister also met Ankita’s parents to ascertain their wishes, who expressed the need for a CBI investigation into the matter. Following this, on Friday, the Chief Minister recommended that the entire case be investigated by the CBI.
