RAIPUR: A day after Chaitanya Baghel was arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged liquor scam, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel questioned the timing of the ED raid at his Bhilai residence.He alleged that the central agency’s actions were an attempt to “divert attention from illegal tree felling” in Raigarh for a coal mine project.Talking to the media persons at Rajiv Bhawan on Saturday, Baghel said that the Leader of Opposition was to bring an adjournment motion against illegal tree felling in the House and to prevent it the ED raid was carried out at his house at 6 AM. Speaking to the media at Rajiv Bhawan on Saturday, Baghel said the Leader of Opposition was set to move an adjournment motion in the Assembly over illegal tree felling.He claimed, the ED conducted a raid at his residence at 6 AM to prevent this.He alleged that thousands of trees were illegally cut in Raigarh’s Tamnar tehsil where villagers were held hostage.
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