Congress on backfoot on corruption issue
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Raveesh Benjamin
Raipur. Before the Lok Sabha elections, Chhattisgarh Congress is on the back foot surrounded by corruption cases from all sides. After the crushing defeat in the Assembly elections 2023, Congress’s troubles have increased even further. In fact, after the FIR registered against former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in the Mahadev online betting app case, corruption has emerged as a big issue in the state.
BJP is continuously attacking Congress during the ongoing meetings and public relations campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. In the assembly elections also, BJP had made corruption a big issue in a similar manner. The party is going through a crisis after the names of many Congressmen cropped up in coal scam, liquor scam, rice scam, District Mineral Fund scam including the Mahadev App case.
Congress has made former CM Bhupesh Baghel its candidate from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat of the state. In such a situation, as Bhupesh’s troubles are increasing, clouds of crisis have arisen for the party. While Bhupesh is in the dock in the Mahadev App case, the bail plea of many leaders including Congress MLA Devendra Yadav has been rejected in the coal scam case.
Congress is preparing to make Devendra the candidate from Bilaspur Lok Sabha. Apart from this, corruption cases against former minister Amarjeet Bhagat, former minister Kawasi Lakhma and other MLAs are also being investigated in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) or Economic Offenses Investigation Bureau (EOW) in Chhattisgarh. Liquor scam worth more than Rs 2,000 crore: After ED’s investigation, a report has been registered against 35 persons in the liquor scam worth Rs 2,161 crore in the state.
// Big Congress leaders under ED investigation
The names of big Congress leaders in the ED investigation include former minister Amarjeet Bhagat, former minister Kawasi Lakhma, former Congress MLA UD Minz, retired IAS Anil Tuteja, former Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, businessman Anbar Dhebar and other IAS-IPS officers. . Many Congressmen also involved in Rs 540 crore coal scam.
Like the liquor scam, the ED in the state has also registered crimes against a total of 70 persons in the coal scam worth Rs 540 crore. Investigation is also going on against them in EOW. The names of Congress MLA Devendra Yadav, Congress leader Vinod Tiwari and Congress spokesperson RP Singh, former MLA Chandradev Rai, former Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, State Administrative Service officer Soumya Chaurasia, IAS Ranu Sahu and IAS Sameer Bishnoi are also included in the coal scam.
All three officers are in jail. It is noteworthy that ED had exposed the coal levy scam of Rs 540 crore in Chhattisgarh. According to the ED, a cartel of officials, businessmen and politicians was formed for the transportation of coal. Which used to charge Rs 25 per tonne for transportation of coal.
//Congress has corruption wherever it is.
ED was already investigating the Mahadev app case. ED has just filed an FIR on the basis of the investigation report. Bhupesh’s name has appeared in the statement of Asim Das at the time of his arrest and in the statement of Shubham Soni. Congress is the mother of corruption. Wherever there is Congress, there will be corruption. The people of the country have come to know about this. In the last five years he has done only corruption. We had raised this voice in the assembly. Arun Sao, Deputy Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh. BJP is conspiring to divert people’s attention before the Lok Sabha elections to expose the failures of Modi government. BJP has filed this FIR to expose the failures and corruption of Modi government and to malign the image of former CM Bhupesh Baghel. BJP has recovered Rs 6,000 crore in the electorate bond scam.
First they raid the businessmen’s houses and then BJP takes donations from them. Bhupesh had taken action on Mahadev app. BJP is running this online betting business. The public will answer in the Lok Sabha elections.
