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In a bid to unsettle Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan,the Congress has chosen to target his Assembly constituency to expose deeds that show the BJP government in a bad light.
A team of five legislators of the Opposition party recently visited Nasrullaganj in Sehore district and alleged that illegal sand mining was taking place in connivance with the local administration.
Releasing the teams finding on Monday,Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh alleged that such rampant illegality cannot exist without the CMs knowledge.
Permission had been given for only 16 hectares in four villages but sand was being mined in 10 villages,the team said after visiting all of them. Sand had been illegally mined in 361 hectares,the report said.
The team released registration numbers of seven trucks,along with photographs,that were impounded by the administration on December 26,2011,but were still in use on January 3,the day legislators visited the spot.
Demanding immediate cancellation of leases and action against the guilty leaseholders,officials and politicians,the Congress called for a new mining policy for the Narmada region.
The CM termed the allegations as baseless.
Last week,another fact-finding team of the Congress had alleged that a Dalit woman had been raped last month in Chouhan8217;s ancestral village of Jait in Sehore.
