Congress delegation visits violence-hit Baloda Bazar in Chhattisgarh, to prepare probe report

RAIPUR: A delegation of state Congress leaders from Raipur visited the violence-hit Baloda Bazar to take stock of the situation. The team will investigate at its level and prepare a report.
Another team of senior Congress leaders, MLAs, party functionaries will leave for Baloda Bazar at 11 am on Friday. State Congress president Deepak Baij, leader of opposition Dr Charandas Mahant, former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel will also go to the site of incident.
State govt on Tuesday had transferred the district collector and SP after an uncontrolled mob of protesting members of Satnami community torched several vehicles, fire tenders and portion of collector’s officer and SP office on Monday.
Recounting the “failures” of the BJP govt, Congress state president Deepak Baij said that govt has proved to be a failure in six months and that an era of corruption and poor governance is dominating the state. “The law and order situation in state has worsened and incident like mob lynching has started taking place here when two people were beaten to death in Arang. They promised of providing 18 lakh houses, but they could not provide even one new house in six months to the needy,” Baij said.
District administration has imposed Section 144 of CrPC till June 16.
CM meets members of Satnami community
Chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai met members of the Satnami community at his official residence on Tuesday late and discussed the incident.
Opposition Congress criticized the incident and alleging that the law and order situation was out of govt's hands and control. Former minister and Congress leader Shiv Kumar Dahariya said that, when the Jaitkham (victory pillar) of the community was damaged in the month of May, an FIR was not lodged and three people arrested got bail. He said that BJP has tortured Satnami community more than Aurangzeb. BJP has always been against our Satnami community. After the community protested hard, govt announced of judicial inquiry in the matter.
Home minister Vijay Sharma had said that the community was instigated by outside forces because they had expressed satisfaction and gratitude after the announcement of judicial inquiry in the matter.