‘Nath Govt targeting BJP leaders on pretext of anit-mafia campaign’
Accusing Kamal Nath Government of targeting BJP leaders on the pretext of anti-mafia drive in the State, BJP protested across the State on Friday while the Congress hit back saying the action would now be resumed in towns.
Former Chief Minister and vice president of the State unit of BJP, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, alleged that to mislead people from real issues, the Kamal Nath Government in Madhya Pradesh is coming up with new agendas.
It has come up with innovative idea of fighting against mafia. To deal with the adulteration, a new action plan ‘Shuddh Ke Liye Yuddh’ was brought. But it was limited only upto taking money from the shopkeepers after collecting samples of eatables and edibles.
He was addressing a gathering here on Friday, while demonstrating against the State Government at the district Collector office.
“I want to ask from Chief Minister Kamal Nath, as who is mafia in the State and what action has been taken against them. Provide list of such persons,” he asked.
Chouhan alleged that the State Government was targeting the BJP leaders and workers in the name of taking action against mafia and the encroachment.
Meanwhile, senior BJP leaders protested at district headquarters alleging partisan and mala fide action on the pretext of anti-mafia drive in Madhya Pradesh. After the protests, senior leaders and party workers courted arrest in districts.
Party State president, Rakesh Singh, ex-Speaker of Lok Sabha, Sumitra Mahajan, and others, courted arrest in Indore.
Earlier, addressing the party workers, Singh said they had heard about different kinds of terrors but never did they know about State-sponsored intimidation as witnessed in Madhya Pradesh. Kamal Nath Government has spelt administrative terror on the pretext of anti-mafia drive but the BJP leaders and workers won’t feel intimidated, affirmed the BJP state president.
Former Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan on the occasion said she hasn’t seen such political vendetta in her life. Commoners and BJP workers are being harassed on the pretext of anti-mafia action, alleged Mahajan.
BJP on Thursday had threatened to prepare own list of mafias saying the list would be handed to CM Kamal Nath for action.
Meanwhile, Congress has also chalked out a strategy to counter BJP campaign and ministers are being instructed to hold press briefings in districts to clear the air on anti-mafia drive.
Public Relations minister PC Sharma talking to media persons in Bhopal alleged that 11 types of mafia activities have flourished in 15 years BJP rule in the state. These are – land mafia, extortion, liquor, drug, adulteration, chit fund, land grab, blackmail, mining, transport and co-operative sector mafia.
