The Congress members on Thursday accused the State Government of involvement in a scam worth Rs 1.35 lakh crore in the electricity department.
On the second day of parallel ‘assembly monsoon session’ dubbed as ‘Janata Ki Adalat’ at Vidhan Sabha premises, the Congress members continued with their no-confidence motion. The speaker in the mock assembly was Yadvendra Singh.
Congress legislators’ which in the State assembly Vikram Singh Natiraja, presenting the no-confidence notice stated that the State government has cheated the farmers, common people and poor.
In such a situation when corruption is rampant in the State, claim of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that he has adopted zero tolerance policy is ridiculous, he added. He presented 19 points of no-confidence including corruption in almost all departments.
Another Congress member Jitu Patwari alleged that in past 15 years rule of the BJP, the government has committed scam worth Rs 1.35 lakh crore in electricity and coal purchase. He claimed that amount involved in this scam is equal to the loan on the government.
He stated that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ad his ministers always lamented regarding shortage of coal, but the fact is that the coal shortage of artificially creaqted.
It is evident with the figures, which state that in 2017-18, the State government received only 127 lakh ton coal against the total 216 lakh per year ton allocated to Madhya Pradesh.
“If there was shortage of coal, why the government did not receive the whole allocated coal,” he asked.
Patwari further alleged that by signing MOUs with private companies the government is forced to make the payments to the companies, without getting any electicity.