The Opposition Congress on Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi whether he directly or indirectly protects Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and his family in their illegal sand mining business from pious Narmada River.
leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Ajay Singh and MP Congress Committee (MPCC) president Arun Yadav addressing a joint Press conference here on Friday said that under what compulsions the PM Modi who boasts of neither doing corruption nor let others do corruption (Na Khaunga na khane dunga) is coming to conclude the Narmada Seva Yatra.
Singh and Yadav alleged that crowd has been pulled for the Yatra by spending crores of rupees from the treasury of state Government while the transport department has seized thousands of buses causing difficulties to the families in that marriages are taking place.
Terming the Narmada Seva Yatra political the leader duo registering strong apprehensions over presence of PM Modi as the guest of the State Government in the
concluding program of the Yatra said, “What are the reasons that the PM is participating in the concluding program of Yatra despite knowing the truth and proofs through various Government agencies that during the past eleven years the family of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is involved in the illegal mining of sand, its transpiration, its collection and making mullah out it.
“Does the PM Modi protect chief minister and his family in the illegal trade of sand mining,” asked the leader duo.
Both the senior Congress leaders told the media persons that the Congress party has made available the photographs related to the illegal mining to the tune of billion of rupees from Narmada River, videos, cuttings of newspapers, details of vehicles doing illegal sand transportation besides details of vehicles of Chief Ministers’s relative that were caught doing illegal mining, details of gang wars between the gangs involved in this politically patronized illegal trade,
murders and attempt to murder assaults over officers on February 3, 2017 through official email id of the PM.
After that a reminder of the same with fresh evidences was sent to the PM on April 27 with request of not to participate in the concluding program of political Yatra.