Congress built \'chain\' of graft to Delhi: Amit Shah

Raipur: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday made a scathing attack on the Bhupesh Baghel government alleging that it had built a corruption chain from Chhattisgarh to Delhi to fill the coffers of Congress with the siphoned public money.

Addressing a massive election rally at Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, Mr Shah alleged that the state Congress government had been hit by a string of corruption scandals and no departments had remained untouched by scams.

He listed out alleged scandals surfaced in the Bhupesh Baghel government in the last five years such as liquor scam worth Rs 2,000 crore, coal transportation scandal amounting to Rs 500 crore, millet mission scheme scam worth Rs 5,000 crore, Gauthan scandal worth Rs 1300 crore, and online gaming App scam worth Rs 5,000 crore.

“I have never seen such a big list of corruption scandals in a government”, Mr Shah said.

The Union minister said that the state government had built a corruption chain like a food chain (of restaurants) from Chhattisgarh to Delhi to fill the coffers of Congress with siphoned public money.

“The Congress has turned Chhattisgarh its ATM”, he alleged.

Mr Shah pledged that “If BJP comes to power in Chhattisgarh, we will recover every penny from the corrupt and they will be hanged upside down”.

He cautioned the people that Congress would continue doing the appeasement politics for vote bank and turn Chhattisgarh the epicentre of communal violence in the country if the party retained power in the state in the November assembly elections.

He cited the brutal killing of a youth, Bhubaneswar Sahu, in the recent incident of communal violence in Biranpur village of Bemetara district in the state to drive his point home.

Mr Shah vowed to give justice to the slain youth by bringing his killers to book if BJP was voted to power in the state in the coming polls.

He said that BJP has fielded Ishwar Sahu, father of the deceased, in the polls as a symbol of justice to his slain son.

Mr Shah said that the previous BJP government headed by Dr Raman Singh had turned Chhattisgarh into a developed state from a ‘Bimaru’ (laggard) one by undertaking massive developmental works in the infrastructure and other sectors during its 15-year-rule.

He said that the massive crowd at the rally indicated the enthusiasm among the people to return BJP to power in the state in the upcoming assembly elections.

“The upcoming elections are not to elect any government or MLAs but to create a golden future for the state under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, he said.

Chhattisgarh is going to assembly polls in two phases on November seven and November 17.