Guwahati, Feb 20 : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said he has shot off a letter to a national weekly on his government's position regarding a report alleging involvement of seven state ministers in a Rs 1,000-crore scam and threatened it of legal action.

"I have already sent a letter to the magazine and if they do not publish it, I will take legal action against them since the fabricated report was aimed at maligning the state government," Gogoi told reporters here.
Noting that his government had extended cooperation to the National Investigation Agency while it was probing the scam, he said "I have not recieved the NIA report but I have asked the Centre to give the report to me at the earliest.
No central ministry has so far asked me to initiate action against any of my minister. I will myself order that the ministers be issued charge sheets if their names are mentioned in the report," Gogoi said.
Chidambaram had grilled him on the alleged involvement of the ministers, Gogoi said, "there is no question of him grilling me but in the last chief ministers' meeting on internal security, he had congratulated me on improving the law and order situation in the state."
The weekly magazine in its February 7 issue had carried a report alleging that the names of seven Assam ministers, a Congress MP, MLA and a former governor have been mentioned in the NIA's report on misuse of development fund for the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC).