VOL - II FRIDAY 28 ISSUE NO. 105 APRIL, 2017 PAGE-8 BHUBANESWAR HE ALINGA HRONICLE (Air Surchange - 0.50P) T K CDaily Edition: R.N.I. No: ODIENG/2013/52530 FOLLOW US 2.50 ON TWITTER Popular People’s Daily of Odisha twritter.com/thekalingchronicle Helping BJP turned curse Naveen rejects infights Bhubaneswar (K- Delhi, Mr.Patnaik said New Delhi(KCN): my Legal Team not to detta forced the CBI In its charge came to the then Coal despite strong objec- CN): Governing BJD "I heard Mr Vajpayee Senior Saffron Law- seek a discharge to dig out something sheet, CBI had al- Secretary from tion raised by CIL Supremo and Chief was not feeling well. maker, Dilip Ray has (which would have to malign him and its leged that the name of Mr.Ray's office with and CMPDIL regard- Minister Naveen So I paid a courtesy landed in trouble for only delayed the pro- predecessor NDA former BJP Rajya an endorsement that ing allotment of the Patnaik today rejected visit." helping a BJP Veteran ceedings) and to vol- Government headed Sabha Member P K in light of representa- block, the screening the allegations of in- On claims made of Jharkhand. unteer myself for a by Atal Behari Agarwalla was not tion received from committee and fighting inside the by a section of BJP Surprisingly, the speedy trial as I have Vajpayee and an FIR being recommended CTL, the case may be Mr.Ray proceeded party. leaders in Odisha that "I do not feel any he wanted an alliance former Union Coal for prosecution as he ahead to allot the re-examined. infighting in the party. with the saffron party Minister put in diffi- has since expired. CBI alleged that block to CTL. Where is infighting?" ahead of the 2019 gen- culties when the BJP In its charge when the file again It alleged that af- Mr.Patnaik asked eral elections, the led NDA Govern- sheet, CBI had said reached Mr.Gautam's ter allocation of the while replying to the Chief Minister said ment at the helm and that CTL had applied desk, he made a note block, CTL started Media Men on "That is not correct." also Mr.Ray mean- in May 1998 to the in which he "made a extracting coal ille- hisreturn from his Whether he has while an active leader MoC for allotment of complete u-turn from gally even without five-day visit to the any plans to join the of the Saffron Bri- Brahmadiha coal his observations" grant of any mine national capital. non-BJP parties to gade. block and it was given in the earlier opening permission When the Chief field an united oppo- His contribution stated in the applica- note. by the concerned au- Minister was asked sition candidate in the to the Saffron party is tion that extracted It alleged that on thorities. whether infighting in ensuing presidential known to all as be- coal shall be used by the basis of Gautam's It said that as per the regional outfit has elections, he said sides he himself win- the firm for washery note, the file came to a family settlement, been making the party "There are no plans ning a tough and power genera- Mr.Banerjee who ap- all the shares of CTL weak, he said "Who yet. There were no dis- says the party is going cussions in New Delhi Rourkela Assembly tion. stood transferred in proved it, after which weak? I don't think its as far as I am con- segment, Mr.Ray had When the appli- the 14th screening favour of Mahender going weak at all? We cerned." played a crucial role cation came up for committee recom- Kumar Agarwalla are the largest party in Replying to a behind winning of the consideration, Coal mended CTL for allo- and his family mem- the state. We have won question on the Maoist lone BJP MP (Jual India's views were cation of the coal bers while the block four terms in a row." attack in Chhattisgarh Oram) from sought, which in turn block subject to re- so allocated stood When his atten- and Union Home Min- Sundergarh district. sought a report on the laxation of guidelines transferred in favour tion was drawn on a ister Rajnath Singh's And Mr.Ray’s viability of coal block by MoC. On the ba- of another firm CML Lead Article written proposed meeting close friend Mr.Oram on various aspects sis of the approval ac- of P K Agarwalla. by BJD MP with the Chief Minis- is also a Cabinet Min- from the Central corded by Mr.Ray, a CBI also alleged Bhartuhari Mahatab ters of Naxal-hit ister in the Narendra Mine Planning and letter of allotment of that CML was also where he states, Mr.Patnaik said Modi Government Design Institute Lim- Brahmadiha coal involved in illegal ex- indicatedinfighting in "It (the killing of 26 when the CBI framed complete faith in the was registered in ited (CMPDIL). block in favour of traction of coal from BJD, Mr.Patnaik said security personnel in charges against his judicial system and September 2012. CBI had alleged CTL was issued on the block without he has not gone Sukma) is very tragic. through the Article. We will wait for the name. have done no wrong Later, a charge that on the basis of signing of a mining September 1, 1999 by On his visit to the invitation for the May The senior Law in nearly four decades sheet was filed in De- CMPDIL's report of the MoC. lease or obtaining residence of Ex-Prime 8 meeting from the Maker had helped a of my public life," cember 2014 (15 August 1998, the CIL CBI has alleged mine opening per- Minister A B Vajpayee Union Home Minister BJP MP then even as Mr.Ray, who is now years after the said conveyed to MoC in its charge sheet that mission. during his stay in on this." he was in BJD headed a sitting BJP MLA decision) and today that as the coal block by Naveen Patnaik. from Rourkela, said charges were framed, was an abandoned Therefore, what in a statement. he pointed out mine area and was was Mr.Ray’s fault? Stating that he Special CBI Judge full of water, it could He as the Union Min- has undergone im- Bharat Parashar be dangerous to ad- ister of Coal, Mr.Ray mense agony due to framed charges of joining properties of had helped a BJP MP his name having been cheating, criminal Central Coal Fields P K Agarwal. dragged "unnecessar- conspiracy and crimi- (CCL) where coal When an Union ily" into the contro- nal breach of trust mining activities Minister, versy, Mr.Ray said, against Mr.Ray, two were being under- Mr.Agarwal made a "My political rivals senior officials of the taken through under- representation to him know fully well that Ministry of Coal ground mining for the allocation of a my conduct is above (MoC) at that time, method. Coal Block. “I had board and I have Pradip Kumar The report also just forwarded the nothing to hide." Banerjee and Nitya said that mining coal same to the depart- The case against Nand Gautam, from the block would ment for re-examina- him was made as a Castron Technologies be against safety tion, Mr.Ray told re- Minister of State (In- Ltd (CTL), its direc- norms and the mining porters adding that dependent charge) for tor Mahendra Kumar statutes, the Agency his role was confined coal in the NDA Gov- Agarwalla and said. to referring the peti- ernment headed by Castron Mining Ltd CBI alleged that tion for “re-examina- erstwhile Prime Min- (CML), saying there when the report came tion which is a rou- ister Atal Behari was enough evidence to Mr.Gautam, he tine affair. Vajpayee in 1999. to start the trial wrote to CIL seeking “The CBI has er- The allocation against the accused. further clarification roneously alleged was made by the The Court fixed but CIL reiterated its that in view of my en- screening committee, July 11 to begin the earlier stand and also dorsement of the rep- of which he was not trial after the CBI highlighted that the resentation for re-ex- a member, Mr.Ray submitted that block was not in the amination, Castron, said. Mr.Ray was a sitting list of identified cap- owned by senior BJP He claimed that MLA in Odisha and tive coal blocks to be MP P K Agrawal was the grant of this coal as per Supreme Court allocated. allotted a coal block block in question was directions, the trial On the basis of whereas the fact is in fact recommended should be conducted CIL's comment, that the allotment of by the Jharkhand on day-to-day basis. Mr.Gautam proposed a coal block is de- government in favour The case pertains that it would not be cided by a screening of Castron, as it was to allocation of possible to allot the committee compris- an abandoned coal Brahmadiha coal coal mine to CTL, it ing members from block from which block in Giridih in said. different ministries of coal was regularly Jharkhand to CTL in The Central the Central Govern- being looted by the 1999. Agency said the file ment including those coal mafia. The accused have was sent to Mr.Ray's of coal, steel, finance, The State Gov- been summoned for office on April 23, power, DIPP, forest ernment wanted legal the alleged offences 1999 and on May 12, and environment, utilisation of this of criminal con- 1999, CTL submitted chairman Coal India, block, Mr.Ray said.