Gujarat Narmada Development Minister Jaynarayan Vyas on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into the financial assets of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar.
In a letter to Home Minister L K Advani, Vyas requested him to order a CBI probe into Patkar's assets and financial support NBA is getting from abroad.

Addressing a press conference in Ahemdabad, Vyas questioned the huge monetary support anti-dam activists were getting and their expenditure.

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He demanded that all the documents relating to financial and other support to the agitation should be investigated by the central agency.

To a query, Vyas said that NBA activitists' statement like "We will give and take lives" were most objectionable and warranted criminal action.

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