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Ranchi, June 16: BJP state president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi today launched a major attack on the INDI Alliance partners, including Congress and JMM.
Marandi, while addressing a press conference in Medininagar during his Palamu tour, has urged the Election Commission to conduct a forensic investigation of INDI Alliance’s Jamshedpur Lok Sabha candidate Sameer Mohanty’s letter, which talks about embezzlement, loot and corruption in the money distributed at booths, and expose the truth.
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He said that Mohanty had written a letter to the leadership of JMM and Congress and complained that out of the Rs 6,000 given by him per booth for booth expenses, only Rs 4,000 reached the workers and the remaining Rs 2,000 per booth fell prey to corruption. Not only this, he has also written in the letter that an additional Rs 25 lakh was given for each assembly constituency.
However, he dubbed his letter fake when it came into the public domain.
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Marandi said that there are an average of two thousand booths in a Lok Sabha constituency. “If we calculate Rs 6,000 per booth, it comes to Rs 1.20 crore. If we calculate Rs 25 lakhs per assembly constituency, this amount also reaches one and a half crores,” he pointed out.
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He said that it is clear from Sameer Mohanty’s letter that more than Rs 3 crores have been spent in one Lok Sabha constituency, whereas the limit of expenditure set by the Election Commission is only Rs 95 lakhs.
He said that this is a blatant violation of the instructions of the Election Commission and every possible effort has been made by the ruling coalition of the state to influence the elections with the power of money.
He said that the way Sameer Mohanty has termed his letter as fake is a matter of investigation.
He demanded from the Election Commission that the truth should be brought out by forensic investigation of the letter written by Sameer Mohanty to the leaders of his alliance regarding money transactions.
Corruption in ‘Nal Jal Yojana’
Marandi said that amid severe heat in the state, the public is facing a serious crisis of water and electricity in all the districts but the state government is not concerned at all.
He said that the ambitious Nal Jal Yojana of the Central Government fell prey to corruption in Jharkhand. “There is a loot from laying pipes to boring. The prescribed standards were not taken care of. Due to corruption, the scheme has not been completed yet,” he maintained.
He said that there is neither a crisis of electricity production nor funds in the country, but the Congress-JMM-RJD government is only concerned about looting and has nothing to do with the problems of the public.
He said that the hand pumps which the state government had approved for installation before the Lok Sabha elections have not been installed yet despite the recommendation of the MLAs, whereas the code of conduct was not an obstacle in this.
