Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday raised questions regarding why the Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu is still serving as the State’s CM despite the ongoing CBI investigation against him. In a post on X, he noted that the Chief Minister’s family was awarded with Rs 1,270 crore over the last ten years, after which the Supreme Court ordered the CBI investigation. “Why is the man who once said ‘Na khaunga, na khane dunga’ is quiet and why has the Arunachal Pradesh CM not been asked to step down? This is a gross travesty of the Supreme Court’s verdict itself,” the Congress leader wrote, adding that “there are other BJP CMs as well who fall in the category of the Arunachal Pradesh CM.” It was on April 6, 2026, that a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court directed the CBI to commence a preliminary inquiry into allegations that the Arunachal Pradesh CM’s family was awarded contracts worth Rs 1,270 crore over 10 years from Jan 2015 to Dec 2025 in a direct conflict of interest,” he said. “This is not an order of a lower court or a High Court. It is of the Supreme Court. Yet the CM continues in office. He is also the PWD Minister and controls the files that the CBI will need to conduct its inquiry,” he added.
