The Congress on Wednesday alleged that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had scripted a liquor scam in Chhattisgarh to help the BJP in the Assembly elections, and accused the ruling party of “shamelessly peddling” lies to implicate former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used the ED, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Income Tax Department “to hound all INDIA bloc politicians, and his use of the washing machine to purify the BJP’s politicians”.
Taking to social media platform X, Mr. Ramesh said former IAS officer Anil Tutreja and his son, Yash, were identified as “kingpins” of a criminal syndicate of politicians, private persons and senior government officials that had siphoned off ₹2,161 crore by selling liquor illegally from 2019 to 2022.
