“The Centre is using the CBI to prevent the alliance of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” the former chief minister told reporters on Sunday. Akhilesh, negotiating an alliance with traditional rival Bahujan Samaj Party that could hurt the BJP, held the mining ministry from 2012 to 2014, the first two years of his chief ministership. “The Congress (UPA government) too had ordered a CBI probe (in a wealth case against Akhilesh, his father and then chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and other family members in 2005). “The CBI is doing its duty — it doesn’t keep in mind the timing of an action,” he said. On Saturday, the CBI had raided Chandrakala’s homes in Noida and Lucknow, and those of MLC Mishra and Satyadev Dixit in Hamirpur and Kanpur.

Source: The Telegraph January 06, 2019 22:07 UTC