Days after the ED claimed Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was paid Rs 508 crore by the promoters of the Mahadev betting app, the BJP's IT Cell chief Amit Malviya on Sunday said the former was aware of the scam.
Ahead of the Chhattisgarh assembly polls to be held this month, a verbal duel has erupted between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and state Chief Minister Bhupesh Bahel.
Gujarat's promising 400m hurdler Dhaval Utekar had only one thought when he landed in Goa for the 37th National Games. He wanted to finish ahead of the competition in the 400m hurdles and end the domestic season on a high
"ED is a boring topic now. Its only motive is to put the opposition under pressure and defame them. Apart from this, ED has no role to play. An atmosphere has been created against Congress that has no factual relevance," TS Singh Deo said while speaking to ANI.
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar informed that blocking orders have been issued after a request was made by the ED but no such requests were made by the Chhattisgarh government.
Asian Games gold medallist shooter Palak Gulia of Haryana, tennis star Rutuja Bhosale of Maharashtra, and skeet shooter Angad Vir Bajwa of Punjab bagged their second gold medal of the 37th National Games as the race for the top of the table heated up with four days left for the closing cerem
Questioning the relationship between the Government of India and the Mahadev betting app, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday asked why the Centre has not banned this app now amid the Enforcement Directorate allegations against the former.
"No one can even think that someone would use Mahadev's name to loot money. You could use any name 'Zinto', or 'Minto'. But you used Mahadev's name and looted not one or two but Rs 508 crores," the Assam Chief Minister said.
Notably, in 2013, the state's entire Congress leadership was wiped out in the Naxal attack that took place in Bastar's Jheeram Ghati killing as many as 29 people, including the then state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, senior party leader Mahendra Karma and former Union
On a day the Congress unveiled its poll manifesto for Chhattisgarh, promising to conduct a caste census if elected, BJP national president JP Nadda hit out at the ruling party saying that if people vote back incumbent Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, they are "guaranteed to be looted again"