CHENNAI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today alleged that the Centre was using investigating agencies to target his son and his friends to "silence" his voice against the government. "All I will say is, I shall continue to speak and write," he said in a statement here as CBI today launched searches at several places linked to the former finance minister and his son Karti over alleged favours granted in foreign investment clearance to a firm, INX Media, in 2007.Chidambaram said FIPB approval was granted in "hundreds of cases. "There is no allegation against me," he added. "The government, using the CBI and other agencies, is targeting my son and his friends..The government's aim is to silence my voice and stop me from writing, as it has tried to do in the cases of leaders of opposition parties, journalists, columnists, NGOs and civil society organisations," the former finance minister said.Asked about the raids, he told PTI: "You should have called your CBI friends.......Should I stop writing ? (against the government).

Source: Economic Times May 16, 2017 06:36 UTC