Governments have been constantly accused of using central agencies against their political opponents. In 2013, during the UPA government, the Supreme Court itself had called the CBI a parrot of the government.
Wherever elections are held in the country, a noise is heard very loudly, a whole section of the opposition alleges that Central government CBI and Ed abusing the. Now the daughter of Telangana CM KCR poetry of has also accused the government of misusing agencies.
K Kavita has even said that wherever elections are held, the ED reaches there first. Earlier, Congress leader KC Venugopal has also made similar allegations against the government. Although there is no measure of how true these allegations are, but governments have been constantly accused of using central agencies against their political opponents. In 2013, during the UPA government, the Supreme Court itself had called the CBI a parrot of the government.
- Telangana : Telangana is also included in the states where elections are proposed in 2023, the heat of the liquor scam in Delhi has reached here, in fact in this case ED has arrested a businessman Arun Ramachandran Pillai, on which the change in liquor policy Pillai is said to be close to Kavitha, KCR’s daughter. ED has also summoned K Kavita in the same case. Earlier, he was questioned once in the month of December.
- Chhattisgarh : Elections are to be held in the state this year, ED is continuously active here from October 2022, in the case of coal scam in 2020, ministers and bureaucrats of the Congress government are being summoned for questioning. Some arrests have also taken place.
- Maharashtra :At the time of assembly elections in the state, ED had given notice to NCP chief Sharad Pawar in the Cooperative Bank scam case. Apart from this, NCP leader Nawab Malik was accused of money laundering in a 22-year-old property case. He is in jail regarding this matter. While being in the Congress, former Maharashtra CM Narayan Rane was also accused of money laundering, but he left the Congress. Presently he is a minister in the central government.
- Uttar Pradesh : Just before the assembly elections in UP, swift action was taken against many SP leaders by the central agencies. In Kannauj, the IT team raided and recovered crores of rupees from a perfume trader. ED and CBI had also inquired in this matter. Earlier in 2019, the ED had registered a case against a SP member of the Legislative Council on charges of illegal mining. Apart from this, in January 2019, the ED also raided the monument scam case.
- West Bengal : Elections were held in West Bengal in 2021, just before the ED started investigation in the Narada sting case on several big leaders of TMC, including the names of Subhendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy. Later both the leaders joined BJP. After the elections, four leaders were arrested in the case, but the names of Subhendu Adhikari and Mukul Roy were not included in it. After this, Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of TMC chief Mamta Banerjee, came on the radar of ED. However, his name was not there in the charge sheet.
- Tamil Nadu : Such action was also seen during the assembly elections in the state, although at that time the IT team raided the premises of DMK chief Stalin’s close and senior leader EV Velu. ED had also inquired in the matter.
- Haryana: The CBI had registered a case against former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda just before the elections here. Hooda was accused of corruption in land acquisition.
- A state in Eastern India : The ED team is continuously taking action in the land for job scam case involving Lal Prasad Yadav. An ED team has also gone to raid the residence of Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar. Apart from this, continuous raids are being conducted at the houses of Lalu Yadav’s daughters. Even in the state capital Patna, ED is simultaneously raiding several locations of former MLA Abu Dojana.
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