Hum to doobay hain sanam, Sath tumko b lay dooben gay...!!

Hum to doobe hain sanam, par tumko bhi le doobenge, was a line often used in Hindi movies of the sixties, seventies and eighties. This line now applies to the Congress party as it tries to divert the attention from its involvement in the coal blocks allocation (Coalgate) scam. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will now widen the scope of its inquiry into the scam to cover the allocation of all coal blocks given away for free to private companies, including state government entities, ever since the policy was first initiated in 1993. The ongoing CBI inquiry covers 67 blocks allotted to private parties since 2004 when the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power, reports the Business Standard . The CBI will now probe all the allocations made to private companies going back to 1993. This means that the inquiry will now also look at allocations made to private companies before the Congress-led UPA came to power. The probe will now cover the blocks given during the six-year tenure of the BJP-led NDA government, from 1998 to 2004, besides those allotted by the Congress government led by PV Narasimha Rao after 1993 and the United Front government from 1996 to 1998. Till now, the CBI was investigating private companies that got blocks between 2004 and 2009, reports The Hindu. This widening of the inquiry came on the basis of a reference made by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). The reference made by the CVC was in response to a letter written by Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal drawing the attention of the commission to the concerns of seven MPs of the UPA. These MPs included Sandip Dikshit, Harish Chaudhary, Ravneet Singh and Raghuveer Singh Meena.