By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: BJP on Sunday sent a strong message to illegal mine owners in Odisha, who have been the financial backbone of Naveen Patnaik led BJD Government in the State since last 24 years and involved in large scale illegal mining in the districts of Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Jajpur and several other mineral bearing areas of the State.
Former Odisha BJP President and former Minister KV Singh Deo while addressing a press meet along with State chief spokesperson Sajjan Sharma and Media Coordinator Sujit Das, said, the Party had raised the illegal mining issue and ,large scale irregularities in the State Assembly during 2009-10 but the State Government downplayed and diverted it . ‘2 types of mining were going on in the State, including mining by lease holder and lease holder, whose lease period expired and applied for renewal and continued mining by submitting details to IBM while others were mining without any lease or mines and they were looting minerals , which BJP had raised but no action taken against them yet,” he said.
‘Once BJP Government takes charge, it will look into all details of mining scam and reach to a logical conclusion to penalise illegal mine owners, mining contractors and illegal lease holders,” he said. ‘We will reach to the logical conclusion of Odisha Mining scam,” he said.
Even the Justice MB Shah Commission reports did not figure such large scale illegal mining by those people due to State Government’s support to illegal mine owners, Singh Deo, said. ‘He will again open the mining scam file and look into it,” he added.
