DC Edit | Timing of ED raids in Chhattisgarh is suspect
Deccan ChronicleThe allegations of the NDA government using Central investigation agencies against its political opponents have been running thick and fast for so long that the ruling party appears to have inured itself to them. Otherwise, the sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate would not have been knocking on the doors of prominent Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh in relation to a coal scam a few days ahead of the party’s plenary session is to begin in Raipur in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi never misses the chance to position India as a nation founded on democratic ethos; democracy runs in our veins, he would say. The BJP should not think that it can create an “Opposition-mukt Bharat” by denying them political space and it’s highly likely that the people of India would subscribe to that prescription.