Accusing the Enforcement Directorate of defaming his government, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday dismissed the Central agency’s allegations of an alleged ₹2,000-crore liquor scam in the State as “fabricated”.
“These allegations have been levelled keeping in view the [Assembly] elections [due later this year]. They should disclose how much mobile and immobile assets have they seized. The [premises belonging to] the same set of people are raided by the IT Income Tax first and then the ED, but they do not issue a press note declaring that how much money was found in whose house. This is only a conspiracy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to defame us,” Mr. Baghel told presspersons.
