'Modi-astra ED': Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Congress hit out at BJP over ₹508 crore Mahadev app payment claim
₹508 crore by the Mahadev Online betting app. The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister flagged the timing of the ED raid and claim saying “Bharatiya Janata Party wants to contest Chhattisgarh elections with the help of agencies like ED, IT, DRI and CBI".
The probe agency claimed that they had arrested a ‘cash courier’ Ashim Das who was allegedly sent from UAE to give CM Baghel ₹5 crore for Chhattisgarh Assembly election expenses. The alleged agent, Asim Das, has been arrested by the agency in Raipur after it recovered ₹5.39 crore cash from.
He was allegedly sent by the app promoters from the UAE “especially, to deliver large amount of cash for electioneering expenses of the ruling Congress Party", the ED claimed. CM Baghel in his statement flagged that ED loudly made the claims of the Congress leader receiving money from the Mahadev App promoters, but “written in a short sentence that the statement is a matter of investigation".
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