lokayukta, EOW puppets in the hands of Govt: Cong

The Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee on Saturday accused the police, the lokayukta and the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of working as puppets in the hands of the State Government and ruling Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.later, in the evening Higher Education Minister Uma Shankar Gupta convened a press conference and said that the allegations of Congress are baseless.

While talking to media persons here on Saturday, State Congress Chief Spokesperson KK Mishra said, “lokayukta had registered separate cases against Chief Minister Shivarj Singh Chouhan and several ministers and former ministers including Jayant Malaiya, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Archana Chitnis, Ajay Vishnoi, Himmat Kothari, Choudhary Chandrabhan Singh, Kamal Patel, Anoop Mishra, Moti Kashyap, Jugalkishore Bagri and Om Prakash Dhurve. Barring a few, most of them were given clean chit.”

He said Vijayvargiya, who was then Indore Mayor, was exonerated from charges in Sugni Devi land scam, Meghdoot scam and other cases while other guilty in these cases were punished. Mishra claimed that lokayukta had also booked over 32 Indian Administrative Service officers, eight Indian Police Service officers and as many Indian Forest Service officers but they were also absolved from charges in most of the cases. He alleged that he had complained to the EOW in 2011 over fraudulent allocation of a 25-acre land in lalghati area in the state capital for setting up a medical college. However, the EOW has not taken any cognisance of the matter till date, he added.