Union Minister of State Charandas Mahant, (in pic) who is the lone Congress lok Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh accused Raman Singh-led Government on Tuesday of not cooperating in the Jeeram Ghati probe.
At least 30 people mostly from the State Congress leaders were killed in a deadly attack carried out by Maoists on a Congress convoy on May 25 last year in restive Sukma district . Congress state chief Nandkumar Patel, a civil militia movement Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma and nine-time Congress MP and former union minister VC Shukla were among the top leaders who were martyred in the attack.
Mahant who was Congress State chief till recent period, remarked while talking to media persons “because of poor response and non-cooperation by the Chhattisgarh’s BJP regime the National Investigating Agency (NIA) is unable to conclude its probe.”
Commenting on former-Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’s decision to stay away from active politics for one year, Mahant said he will discuss it with it Jogi. “I would try to persuade him to come out of his year-long break and contest the lok Sabha polls,” he said. The former Chief Minister should contest polls in this hour of need, he said.
Chhattisgarh’s first chief minister Jogi who is wheelchair-bound because of a near-fatal road accident in 2004, had also kept himself away from Poll Committee meeting held at Congress Bhavan in the city on last weekend.