Senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Monday said the Supreme Court’s decision in connection with the alleged liquor scam in Chhattisgarh had exposed the Centre for using the Enforcement Directorate to target opposition parties. In a a post on X, Baghel said the commitment of agencies like the ED should be towards the Constitution and not towards any political party.
“Shameful political misuse of ED has been proved and the Modi government has been exposed. Today’s decision of the Supreme Court has proved that at the behest of BJP, the ED has been conspiring to defame the opposition parties by making every case a case of money laundering,” Baghel said on X.
The ED registered a case in the alleged liquor scam just before the 2023 assembly polls to defame the previous Congress government and give a political weapon to the BJP, Baghel alleged. It has become clear from the SC ruling that BJP was only spreading lies, he added. The conspiracy of the BJP-led Centre to defame its political opponents by misusing democratic institutions has been unearthed, the former chief minister said.