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In just 15 months of the Congress government, the revenue from sand mining had increased 5 times.
Babele said that in Ganjbasoda the mountains have been hollowed out due to 12 legal and 1500 illegal mining.
Bhopal. The BJP government of Madhya Pradesh has proved unsuccessful in stopping the illegal mining going on across the state. Madhya Pradesh government is of the mafia, for the mafia and by the mafia. Kamal Nath’s media advisor Piyush Babele said this in a press conference held at the state Congress headquarters.
Piyush Babile said that in democracy there is a government of of the people, by the people, for the people, but in Madhya Pradesh there is a government of of the mafia, for the mafia and by the mafia. Illegal mining in Madhya Pradesh is going on under the protection of the government. Babele said that the Chief Minister should tell which leaders are behind the illegal mining of mountains going on in his former parliamentary constituency Vidisha.
Sand revenue had increased 5 times in Kamal Nath government.
Piyush said that the Kamal Nath government had taken fierce action against the mafia. This is the reason why our revenue from sand mining alone had increased 5 times, from Rs 250 crore to about Rs 1250 crore, but the people of BJP made an alliance with the mining mafia and brought down this government, so that that revenue could go to BJP. Leaders can earn and their benefits do not reach the public. This is a government of mining mafias.
Major incidents of illegal sand mining
1. On March 8, 2012, while stopping illegal mining in Morena, a tractor ran over IPS officer Narendra Kumar and he was killed by the mining mafia. Narendra’s father Keshav Dev had made serious allegations against the BJP government of the state and said that his son has been punished for working against the mining mafia.
2. In the month of June 2015, female mining inspector Reena Pathak had gone with the team to raid the mining area in village Shujalpur area of Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh. There was an attack by mining mafia goons, in which three Home Guard soldiers were badly injured.
3. In June 2015 itself, the second incident took place in Balaghat district, in that incident, the goons of sand mining mafia kidnapped a journalist Sandeep Kothari and burnt him alive. The dead body of the 40 year old journalist was found in a field located in Wardha area of Maharashtra. It was recovered by the police in a burnt and abandoned condition.
4. In September 2018, mining mafia goons crushed a forest department deputy ranger to death with a tractor in Deori village of Morena district. Deputy Ranger Subedar Singh Kushwaha was crushed under the rear tires of the tractor in Morena.
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Tags: Kamal Nath, Madhya Pradesh Politics, MP Congress, MP News Today
FIRST PUBLISHED : September 25, 2023, 9:32 PM IST
