ED Raid: Why no raids in Maharashtra now? Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel taunted ED raid

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In Chhattisgarh, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided several premises related to leaders, businessmen and officials of the ruling Congress party. After this raid, the reaction of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has come to the fore. He said that all this is being done at the behest of BJP leaders.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel spoke to the media before leaving for Lucknow. He said that today the ED raided again in Chhattisgarh. Industrialists, traders, transporters, MLAs, officers, farmers, there is no class left where raids have not been done. Raids do not take place only in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Karnataka and it seems that there is no ED office there.

Why no raids in Maharashtra?

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that till Uddhav Thackeray’s government was in Maharashtra, all the central agencies were active, but as soon as the government changed, they were left with no work. Baghel said that all this is being done at the behest of the state and national leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but the ED should be impartial.

CM Baghel said that in Karnataka, where there is a 40 percent government, where six crore rupees were found in an MLA, there are no raids. This is the situation of the country. Based on the Hindenburg report, Adani’s assets have come down by 60 percent, but there ED does not raid, there SEBI does not take action. ) raided several places in Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday in connection with the ongoing money laundering probe in the case of illegal extraction of coal.

At least Rs 540 crore raised

The agency had earlier said that the probe pertains to a huge scam in which Rs 25 was charged per tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh with the involvement of senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen. The ED said that at least Rs 540 crore was extorted through this in the last two years. Official sources said that apart from premises belonging to Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee treasurer Ram Gopal Agarwal and arrested coal baron Sunil Agarwal, premises of some others in state capital Raipur and Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam were raided.

Nine arrested including Sameer Vishnoi

Nine people including State Administrative Service officer Soumya Chaurasia, coal baron Suryakant Tiwari, his uncle Laxmikant Tiwari and Chhattisgarh cadre Indian Administrative Service officer Sameer Vishnoi have been arrested since the ED registered a case in this regard. .

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