Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 29: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren met with Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday to discuss the state’s upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. He said to the media after his 75-minute meeting with Gandhi that both parties had resolved to field a consensus candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections on June 10.
From Ranchi, the final decision and announcement will be done. The chief minister denied reports of a rift within the Congress-JMM alliance and rumours of a schism within the Congress-JMM coalition, which took power in 2019 after beating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When questioned about the criticism done by the opposition in Jharkhand over the case involving suspected irregularities in the grant of mining leases, Soren accused the BJP of having a vendetta against him.
“Just like Aryan Khan, who was found to be the victim of a made-up case, that’s how I see the Enforcement Directorate case against me. Neither on ED’s site or publicly, have they been able to say what they have found or the progress of the case,” Soren said.
“The ED is investigating the MGNREGA scam in two districts of the state. I don’t understand how the agency officials have done so without even visiting those places or questioning relevant officials. They don’t want to probe deeper, they just want to use to their ends,” he added.
We very well know the condition of central agencies in the country right now. I am co-relating the NCB case of Aryan Khan in Mumbai to the action by ED in Jharkhand. Even after 20-25 days, no data is available on the ED website about the raids in Jharkhand: CM Hemant Soren pic.twitter.com/d89NU8xnrj
— ANI (@ANI) May 29, 2022
Soren further attacked the BJP, saying that just like the excavations at Mohenjodaro, the BJP is interested in digging temples and mosques. “This case is 14 years old. They are interested in 500-year-old cases,” he added.
Hemant Soren also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not paying funds under the MGNREGA for the period between December 2021 and March this year.
In his speech, Prime Minister Modi said that his government had not done or allowed anything to happen, even by mistake, that would cause citizens to hang their heads in shame.
