The opposition Congress taking a strong objection cited the ED’s move as part of the BJP’s political conspiracy.“The Congress Bhawans were built with the contribution from the party workers and the people. We will give accounts of every single penny spent to construct the Rajiv (Congress) Bhawan. But will the ED also probe into the Rs 150 crore BJP’s state office Kushabhau Thakre in Raipur to find out how such a huge amount was arranged by the ruling party to have an opulent building equivalent to a 5-star hotel?” asked Sushil Anand Shukla, Congress media cell chairman.Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister Arun Sao countered the opposition and said that the ED has been pursuing the cases of various scams happened during the previous Congress regime, as the agency gathered the evidence during the searches and their investigation are continuing for long. “The law will take its own course”, Sao asserted.In 2023, the central agency investigating the “fraud” in liquor claimed a prevailing criminal syndicate had operated illegal bribe collections by controlling the high-level management of key state departments and state public sector units in Chhattisgarh.The ED estimated that Proceeds of Crime of around Rs 2,161 crore have been generated by the suspects in the “liquor scam”.
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