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  • Politics heated up over Bhagwat’s statement on Manipur violence; Baghel said contrary to PM Modi’s claim

    Politics has heated up over the statement of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Manipur violence. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel alleged that there is a contradiction between the statements of Mohan Bhagwat and Prime Minister Modi. Baghel (Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel) said that the BJP government claims that the borders are safe under its rule while the RSS chief is pointing towards the role of outside elements in the Manipur violence.

    CM Baghel told reporters- On one side we have world leaders who say that Indian borders are safe. On the other hand, our Mohan Bhagwat (RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat) says that external forces are involved in this. There is a contradiction between the words of Modi ji and Bhagwat.

    Let us tell you that while addressing the RSS Dussehra rally in Nagpur on Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat had blamed external forces for the situation in the North-Eastern state. He had said that the caste violence in Manipur was sponsored. Bhagwat asked that when people of Meitei and Kuki communities have been living together in this border state for many years, then who benefits from such separatism and internal conflict? Whatever happened there, were people from outside involved in it?

    Bhagwat alleged that the so-called Marxists are misusing their influence in the media and education world to ruin the education and culture of the country. The question is, which foreign powers may be interested in taking advantage of the unrest and instability in Manipur? Does the geopolitics of South-East Asia also have any role in these developments? Along with this, Bhagwat warned against efforts to get votes by inciting emotions before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

  • CM Baghel’s question to the Centre, why is the government not banning Mahadev App – VIDEO

    Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel on Friday accused the central government of not taking action in the Mahadev online betting app case. CM Baghel said- Only two or three states in the entire country would have investigated this matter. Chhattisgarh government has investigated. 450 people have been arrested. Orders have been given to issue lookout notice. Since the state government cannot ban this app, the central government should ban the app.

    Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel said- Central government can ban this app, yet it is not doing so. Why is the central government not banning the app? Has he taken election funds from them? Why investigation and arrest are not being made in this case (mahadev online betting app case). We have investigated this matter, why are you not investigating? The biggest question is what is your relationship with them?

    Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that when we were in opposition, the government was doing wrong things. We fought for farmers, labourers, youth, women and after coming to the government, we made schemes for them and implemented them. All our schemes are successful and people are satisfied with them and that is why we are claiming 75% in these elections.

    On the raids of ED and IT in Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel said – Central government does not have any plan. They are not capable of fighting so they are trying to defame them. They are not able to prove anything, they are just conducting raids. They can stoop to any level to come to power. Those people do not care that farmers are suffering losses. Accusing BJP of lying, CM Baghel said that there was a double engine government but Naxalism increased.

  • Chhattisgarh government withdrew petition from Supreme Court in money laundering case, challenged ED’s action

    The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday withdrew its petition from the Supreme Court challenging the Enforcement Directorate’s action against state government officials in a money laundering case on jurisdictional grounds. The money laundering case registered in 2022 pertains to an FIR lodged on a complaint by the Income Tax Department over allegations of illegal duty collection on coal in Chhattisgarh and attempts to influence public servants through corrupt means.

    The ED has claimed that a major scam took place in coal transportation in Chhattisgarh between 2019 and 2021, under which a nexus of politicians, officials and others were allegedly charging illegal fees. The Chhattisgarh government, in its petition, claimed that the ED had initiated investigation against the state government officials by filing an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) in Raipur on September 29, 2022, based on the FIR lodged in Bengaluru.

    Chhattisgarh’s standing counsel Sumir Sodhi on Wednesday told a bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice SVN Bhatti that he has been directed to withdraw the petition. The bench allowed the state government to withdraw the petition and recorded Sodhi’s plea. The petition requested the court to declare the ED’s action illegal, ultra vires and unconstitutional.

    Apart from seeking quashing of the ECIR, the Chhattisgarh government also urged the top court to declare all subsequent actions taken by the ED in connection with the investigation as arbitrary and unconstitutional as they have interfered with the functions of the state police. . The Chhattisgarh government alleged that the ED investigation resulted in indiscriminate surveys and raids in various departments and offices of the state government and arrests of state officials.

  • BJP will launch Parivartan Yatra in Chhattisgarh also, when and from which cities will it start?

    In view of the upcoming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, the main opposition BJP has decided to take out Parivartan Yatra in the state. This yatra will cover a distance of 2,989 kilometers in 87 assembly constituencies. This yatra will be started from two different places in the state from September 12 and September 16, Dantewada (South Chhattisgarh) and Jashpur (North Chhattisgarh).

    BJP state unit president Arun Sao told a press conference here that Union Home Minister Amit Shah will flag off the first Parivartan Yatra after taking the blessings of Maa Danteshwari during a public rally in Dantewada on September 12. He said that this 16-day yatra will cover a distance of 1,728 kilometers in 21 districts.

    Sao told that BJP National President JP Nadda will flag off the second Parivartan Yatra in Jashpur on September 16. He said the yatra will cover a distance of 1,261 kilometers in 12 days in Bilaspur and Surguja divisions of the state. He said that under both the yatras, there will be 84 public meetings, 85 welcome meetings and seven road shows. This yatra will end in Bilaspur after covering a distance of 2,989 kilometers in 87 assembly constituencies.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the concluding ceremony of the yatra. Asked why three assembly constituencies have been kept out as there are a total of 90 assembly seats in the state, Sao said Bijapur, Sukma and Antagarh constituencies (all three Maoist-affected) have not been included in the yatra, but when If the Yatra passes through the surrounding constituencies, people from all three constituencies will participate in it.

    He said that the BJP will highlight the failures of the Bhupesh Baghel government during the ‘yatra being undertaken to oust the Congress regime’ from the state. Senior leaders of the Center and the state will participate in the yatra. He said senior leaders of the state would attend both the visits for two days each.

    After being in power in Chhattisgarh for 15 years (2003-2018) under the leadership of Raman Singh, the BJP faced a massive defeat at the hands of the Congress in the 2018 assembly elections. The party is now trying to return to power. The BJP had last month released its first list of candidates for the 21 seats where it had lost to the Congress in 2018.

    The election schedule for the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly has not been announced yet. In the 2018 assembly elections, Congress won 68 out of total 90 seats, while BJP came second by winning 15 seats. Janata Congress Chhattisgarh-Jogi won five seats and its ally Bahujan Samaj Party won two seats. Congress currently has 71 seats.

  • ED summoned the family members of CM Baghel’s advisor Vinod Verma, also called both his sons

    Vinod Verma, political advisor to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, said on Wednesday that his family members have been summoned by the ED. He said that ED has also summoned both my sons. Sanad Vinod Verma was questioned by central agency ED last week in a case related to alleged betting and gambling app. Vinod Verma posted a picture with family members on X and said that he has dropped them at the ED office in Raipur.

    However, Vinod Verma did not tell in which case these people have been summoned. Vinod Verma posted on X (formerly Twitter) and said- ED has now called my family. I have left my two sons Punarvasu and Tathagata and brother-in-law Tukendra Verma at the ED office. My wife Jaya has been called yesterday. The agencies can do whatever they want on their orders but they cannot break the morale of Bhupesh Baghel and his team.

    The ED had recorded the statements of Vinod Verma and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Chief Minister Manish Banchhor under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on August 28. On August 23, the ED had raided the properties of Vinod Verma and two OSDs Ashish Verma and Manish Banchhor in connection with the money laundering probe into the alleged illegal betting app ‘Mahadev Online Book’. Assistant sub-inspector Chandrabhushan Verma, alleged hawala operator brothers Anil and Sunil Dammani and Satish Chandrakar were arrested the same day in the case.

    ED sources say the arrested policeman allegedly used his connections with Vinod Verma to influence high-ranking officials and politicians in Chhattisgarh. He also used hawala funds received from Dubai. The ED had said that Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, residents of Bhilai, a town in Durg district, are the main promoters of the app. Both are operating business from Dubai. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had criticized the BJP-led central government for the action.

    Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had alleged that the ED and Income Tax Department raids on his associates were an attempt to defame the state government. Vinod Verma said in a press conference on August 24 that he does not have even a single penny of ill-gotten gains. Vinod Verma had termed the ED raid as robbery and claimed that the agency confiscated the jewelery found from his house despite showing the purchase bills.