Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday dubbed the ED’s raids in the state as “politically motivated” and alleged that since the BJP could not even make any attempt to topple his government, efforts were now on to destabilise it through the misuse of the central agency.
He also said that despite carrying out raids at multiple locations in Chhattisgarh in the last one month, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has so far not disclosed anything about what it recovered through its action. He was talking to reporters here at the helipad in Police Lines.
When asked about recent ED raids on liquor businessmen and others, Baghel replied, “The maximum number of raids in the country were conducted in Chhattisgarh in the last one month. Since the Congress’ plenary session was held in Raipur, more than 50 locations were searched by the central agency. But there is no information about the amount recovered during these actions. The agency did not disclose how much (money) it recovered from businessmen or industrialists (covered in the raids).” “Our party workers Girish Dewangan, Sunny Sushil Agrwal, Vinod Tiwari and Ramgopal Agrawal were raided, but what was recovered from them is not being disclosed. It means that it is a politically-motivated raid. It is an attempt to destabilise. The central agency is being misused…,” he said.
