Raipur,
May 17, 2013
Reacting to government clarifications on its May 16 disclosure on Pushp
Steel case, Congress on Friday said if the particular company did not get lease
then how come it fell over 17000 trees.
“The
BJP government seems frightened of continuous disclosures on Pushp Steel and
hence is giving false statements,” said Congress general secretary Bhupesh
Baghel and party’s chief spokesperson Shailesh Nitin Trivedi.
The
duo pointed that even the forest minister Vikram Usendi had admitted in state
assembly that the government gave approval to Push Steel to cut trees.
“The
minister in his reply to a starred question of Congress MLA Bhajan Singh
Nirankari during Vidhan Sabha’s budget session on March 7, 2013 said that Pushp
Steel was given permission to chop 17363 trees under certain conditions of
government of India,”
they said.
“The
minister further said that trees would be cut when there will not be any option
and it would be done under strict supervision of forest department,” they added.
They
asked how come Pushp Steel got approval to fell trees without obtaining mining
lease and prospecting licence. “Either the forest minister lied in Vidhan Sabha
or the government is resorting to canard to save the CM’s face in Push Steel
case,” they said.
They
asked the government to stop giving false statements and hand over Pushp Steel case
to CBI for probe.
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