Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha mocked the Narendra Modi government for blaming auditors and regulators for the multi-crore PNB fraud.

Sinha took a jibe at the continued blame-game over the scam saying, “Thank God they spared the peon”.

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It appears that the remark made by Sinha is in reference to a recent statement by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blaming the multiple layers of auditing system which “chose to either look the other way or do a casual job” for the fraud.

The actor-turned-politician took to Twitter and wrote, “Our learned people, after blaming everyone from Nehru regime to Congress misrule, said that auditors are to blame for PNB scam. Thank God they spared the peon. The moot question is, as actual owners of PNB, what was the government doing for at least four of those six years. ”

Our learned people, after blaming everyone from Nehru regime to Congress misrule, have said that Auditors are to blame for PNB scam..thank God they spared the peon. The moot question is..as the actual owners of PNB, what was the Govt. doing for at least 4 of those 6 years…1>2

— Shatrughan Sinha (@ShatruganSinha) February 26, 2018

In another tweet, he added, “Do we have any answers Sir. With due respect, as they say taali kaptaan ko to gaali bhi kaptaan ko (the captain has to receive both bouquets as well as brickbats).”

We wish to ask for answers through this couplet

“tū idhar udhar kī na baat kar ye batā ki qāfila kyuuñ luTā

mujhe rahzanoñ se gilā nahīñ
terī rahbarī kā savāl hai”

Do we have any answers Sir? With due respect, as they say – “Taali kaptaan ko to gaali bhi kaptaan ko”.

— Shatrughan Sinha (@ShatruganSinha) February 26, 2018

Last week, Jaitley had blamed the auditors for failing to detect the fraud and said the scamsters will be chased and measures will be put in place to prevent such scams.

“What are our auditors doing? Both internal and external auditors really have looked the other way or failed to detect. I am sure the profession of Chartered Accountants and those who control the discipline of the profession will start introspecting and see what are the legitimate actions which are to be taken,” he said in his first public comments on the huge fraud in the Punjab National Bank that has rocked the banking system.

The finance minister had said an example should be made of the fraudulent people involved in the scam and such examples should never be repeated again.

(With agency inputs)