No government interference in work of investigative agencies: Anurag Thakur

MoS for Finance Anurag Thakur says probe agencies are doing their work to wipe out corruption from India and the Union Government has nothing to do with their operations. He also emphasized that the government was not indulging in any political vendetta.

New Delhi: Minister of State (MoS) for Finance Anurag Thakur on Thursday said the Union Government was not interfering in the probe being done by the investigative agencies and no case was "politically motivated".

"Investigative agencies are doing their work. Accused must cooperate," he said here interacting with media persons.

The minister, without naming senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, said a former finance minister was always full of "big talk" but he is in jail now. "The former finance minister was full of big talk. The case against him is being investigated. The matter was even taken to the top court of the country but he is in jail," he said.

Thakur also stressed that "no case was politically motivated" as was being alleged by the opposition parties.