The Congress has educated its weapons on BJP candidate from Raipur Lok sabha seat, Brijmohan Agrawal, searching for an FIR in opposition to him for fraud after a further district court docket in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district dominated in opposition to his spouse Sarita Agrawal in a civil case wherein she allegedly purchased a land from a farmer which the latter had already bought to Chhattisgarh’s water assets division.
On Sunday, Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Deepak Baij held a press convention in Raipur the place he demanded that an FIR be registered in opposition to Agrawal for “dishonest the federal government”.
When contacted on Sunday, Agrawal, who turned a state minister for a fifth time period in 2023, refused to touch upon the difficulty.
In 2017, The Indian Express had highlighted the property row in a sequence of reports experiences. In 2009, Agrawal’s spouse purchased the land close to Sirpur in Mahasamund district which was donated by farmer Vishnu Sahu to the Water Assets division in 1994.
Data present that in March 1994, together with 5 different farmers of Jhalki village, Vishnu Ram Sahu gave 4.12 hectares to the Water Assets Division as a part of “danpatra” (a system below which personal people give their lands to the federal government for public good) for developing a reservoir when the state was a part of undivided Madhya Pradesh.
After buying the land, Agrawals began making a resort there. The land is close to Sirpur, a website with a number of Buddhist excavations, and Agrawal’s Ministry has recognized this area as a possible vacationer vacation spot. On the time, Agrawal was the tourism minister of the state.
The difficulty gained steam in 2017 when an inquiry by district collector revealed that land had been given to the Forest Division however since there was “laxity” in altering the title within the income data, it remained within the title of the unique proprietor Vishnu Ram who bought it to Sarita Agrawal.
The water assets division took the matter to court docket and on April 23 final month, the extra district decide in Mahasamund, Sanghpushpa Bhatpahari, dominated in favour of the water assets division asking Agrawal handy over the property to the federal government in two months.
Again in 2017, Agrawal had advised The Indian Specific, “No matter we’ve completed, we’ve adopted all guidelines. The land that’s being talked about acquired by my spouse and my son was within the title of the farmer. I feel there isn’t any mistake from our finish. It’s the vendor’s fault.”