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The Congress connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025) accused the Adani Group of committing "procedural short-circuiting" successful Madhya Pradesh's Dhirauli to chopped down forests for a ember excavation and described the reported "large-scale histrion felling" arsenic an "environmental calamity and a societal and economical disaster" for the section Adivasis.
Though determination was nary contiguous effect to the allegations from the Adani Group oregon the Madhya Pradesh Government, the State dispensation had rejected arsenic "baseless" the allegations made by the Congress earlier regarding the project.
Jairam Ramesh, Congress wide caput in-charge of communications said, "We had raised the contented of the procedural short-circuiting that Adani and Co person committed successful Dhirauli, Madhya Pradesh was to chopped down forests for a ember mine. Reports person present emerged that large-scale histrion felling has begun successful the colony nether dense constabulary presence. Local villagers person been barred from approaching the wood tract and outsiders person been denied entry. The Madhya Pradesh Adivasi Congress president Ramu Tekam has been arrested for raising the issue."
In September, Mr. Ramesh had alleged that the Adani Group has begun cutting trees connected Government and wood onshore for its "blatant violation" of the Forest Rights Act.
Mr. Ramesh besides claimed that the Modi Government imposed this allotment from supra successful 2019, and is present rushing up with it successful 2025 without the indispensable ineligible clearances.
The Madhya Pradesh Government had past stated that the task was granted last support by the Environment Ministry.
Refuting the charges made by Mr. Ramesh, the Madhya Pradesh Government had said each indispensable approvals and processes person been duly followed and the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has granted Stage-II support (final approval) for the Dhirauli project.
Mr. Ramesh had reiterated his charges of "blatant irregularities" successful the support process for Adani Group's Dhirauli ember mining task and cited a 2023 reply successful the Lok Sabha by the Coal Ministry to assertion that the task falls successful an country protected nether the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.
In a rebuttal to Mr. Ramesh's allegations past week, the Environment Ministry had said, "Both Stage-I and Stage-II approvals person been duly granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Allegations with respect to violations of law protections are factually incorrect and misleading." Mr. Ramesh had alleged that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's rebuttal of his statements, stating that the mining onshore did not autumn successful the country protected nether the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, was "false".
