The former chairman of the state Forest Development Corporation, Mr Shivshanker Pateria, has come out in the open and declared that he was the mastermind behind the controversial CD that eventually put Madhya Pradesh finance minister Raghavji in the spot and led to his ouster from the state Cabinet. After this revelation, the BJP has suspended Mr Pateria from the party for six years.
The purpose of this CD was to cleanse the party, he told mediapersons adding that there are many more in the ruling BJP who need to be exposed.
Mr Pateria chose to go for a sting operation and made as many as 22 CDs showing Raghavji in a compromising position to cleanse the party of such elements, he told mediapersons adding that there are many more in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party who need to be exposed.
Congress workers came out on the roads in large numbers on Saturday to protest and demand registration of FIR against Mr Raghavji under relevant sections of IPC in many cities, including Bhopal, Jabalpur, Sagar, Indore, Burhanpur, Satna, Shaja-pur and Harda.
There was heavy police presence and barricades were put up on roads leading to Mr Raghavji’s residence in the state capital.
Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ajay Singh wrote a letter to the CM urging him to direct the police to lodge an FIR against Mr Raghavji on the basis of the CD allegedly showing the ex-finance minister in a compromising position.
Mr Singh refers to two poor youth who have alleged sexual exploitation by Mr Raghavji on the pretext of getting them a government job.