PM Modi fires salvos at Congress in Chhattisgarh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi fired salvos on the Congress-run Chhattisgarh authorities on Friday in Raipur whereas addressing occasion staff on the Vijay Sankalp Yatra. The PM hit out on the Baghel authorities over corruption amid the continued liquor rip-off investigation.

He stated, “One of the 36 promises made in Congress’s manifesto was liquor ban in the state. 5 years on and the Congress govt has committed thousands of crores of liquor scam. Newspapers are filled with reports on the same.”

He added that the Cong authorities has betrayed the moms and sisters of Chhattisgarh. “The (liquor scam) commission money has allegedly gone to Cong’s kitty,” PM stated.

Taking a jibe on the rift between Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and Deputy Chief Minister TS Singh Deo, PM Modi quipped, “Some say the 2.5-year formula for Chief Ministership couldn’t be implemented due to the scam.”

Calling the Chhattisgarh authorities the “Congress model of Corruption”, PM Modi stated the state is like an atm for the Congress occasion. “Their scams are not limited to liquor. There is not a single department and area of work which is out of the ambit of doubt. Coal mafia, sand mafia, land mafia…all kinds of mafias are dwelling under Congress. They didn’t even spare the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. All including ground-level leaders to top ministers in Congress are accused. The Chhattisgarh government is a model of Cong corruption and misgovernance.”

The Prime Minister additionally mocked the Opposition saying, “Those who are blotted are trying to come together now. Those who used to incessantly curse each other are today trying to find excuses to join forces. They think by doing this they can scare Modi. Every corrupt must hear this that if they are the guarantee of corruption then Modi is the guarantee of action against corruption.”

Saying that the Congress occasion can not breathe with out corruption, PM warned that whoever is concerned in graft is not going to be spared. “Whatever I have today has been given by you, by the nation. They will threaten to dig my grave, they will conspire against me but they don’t know that he who is afraid cannot be Modi.”

Meanwhile, reaching out to the farmers, downtrodden, tribals, and Adivasis, PM stated that the Congress authorities has solely made false ensures to them. “Congress has always used the tribals and adivasis as a vote bank. Congress has always deprived tribals of resources and facilities. It is the BJP government that included them under Scheduled Tribes list. Districts which are difficult to visit have been deemed backward and ignored by Cong,” he stated.

He criticised the Congress governments for “insulting Adivasi freedom fighters like Bhagwan Birsa Munda.” He listed the work executed by the BJP to pay tribute to the Adivasi freedom fighters like Rani Durgavati.

He concluded that the Congress authorities will probably be ousted by the individuals of Chhattisgarh come the Assembly elections. PM Modi is on a two-day go to to poll-bound states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan.

What is the Chhattisgarh liquor rip-off?

The Enforcement Directorate unearthed a Rs 2161-crore liquor rip-off in Chhattisgarh whereby a criminal offense syndicate allegedly run by some babus and prime ministers altered the liquor coverage to derive advantages. Links to Congress and names of bureaucrats have emerged within the case. The ED on Thursday filed a prosecution grievance on the particular PMLA courtroom.

Baghel govt marred with graft costs

In January this 12 months, OpIndia in its unique investigation uncovered The Chhattisgarh Files revealing particulars of how the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress authorities within the state tried to save lots of the prime accused within the NAN rip-off.

In 2015, when the BJP was in energy in Chhattisgarh and Dr Raman Singh was the Chief Minister, Congress had alleged that the federal government was distributing sub-standard high quality grains beneath the PDS and that officers had acquired kickbacks from rice millers to permit this. The Nagrik Apurti Nigam is the nodal company in Chhattisgarh accountable for procuring and distributing meals grains beneath PDS.

The BJP authorities had launched a probe into what got here to be often called the NAN rip-off and subsequently, 27 individuals had been booked by the BJP govt – Anil Tuteja and Alok Shukla being the prime accused. ACB later began a cash laundering probe as properly and a chargesheet was filed in 2015. After this, Congress got here to energy in Chhattisgarh.

What transpired in Chhattisgarh after the Bhupesh Baghel authorities took reign was corruption with impunity, a coordinated marketing campaign to save lots of the first accused, Anil Tuteja, within the NAN rip-off and an try to make use of IPS officers, the Judiciary and different means on the authorities’s disposal to Ex-Chief Minister, Raman Singh and his members of the family, former Principle Secretary Aman Singh and his spouse Yasmeen Singh, Former DG (Police) Mukesh Gupta, Ashok Chaturvedi and Chintamani Chandrakar, utilizing fabricated proof, coercion of witnesses and different extra-judicial means.