The Congress on Monday charged that the erstwhile BJP government in Chhattisgarh led by Raman Singh committed a liquor scam totalling Rs 4,400 crore.
PCC chief spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla said the alleged scam was done in nexus with liquor contactors between 2012 and 2017.
The Raman Singh government changed the decades-old liquor policy, Shukla said. He compared it to the allegations against the Delhi government.
Under the sale price fixation, more than two-and-a-half times price was fixed for the contractors in comparison to other states, he alleged.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) objected to it and an estimated benefit of Rs 946 crore was extended to India Made Foreign Liquor distributers and Rs 567 crore to country liquor distributors, Shukla said.
Thus, a loss of Rs 4,400 crore was suffered by the state exchequer, he said.
The then Officer on Special Duty, Samudra Singh, fled on the second day after a Congress government was formed in 2018, he said.