Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday termed the IT raid on multiple locations linked to his close aides and senior officials an act of ‘political vendetta’ by Union government to ‘destabilize’ his government.
While talking to media persons after handing over a memorandum to the Governor Anusuiya Uikey on late Friday evening, the Chief Minister said, “we are not objecting to their ‘routine action’ but it was astonishing to notice the action was being done without any information to Chief Secretary or Director General of Police of the state.”
Baghel further said that the Congress registered an impressive victory in the assembly elections-2018 with two-third majority and continued its winning streak in the urban and rural bodies’ polls thereafter. “The act of the union government through IT raid was because of its malicious political intention”, he said.
Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Ravindra Choubey commenting on the matter said the act was against the federal structure of the country. The government is contemplating future course over the matter and all the legal options before the state government was open to oppose the move of the Union government, he added.
