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Congress MLAs created a ruckus successful the Chhattisgarh Assembly connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) aft their request for a treatment connected alleged rampant mining and deforestation was disallowed by the Speaker.
The Opposition legislators alleged that the State’s Vishnu Deo Sai-led Bharatiya Janata Party Government was moving for the payment of industrialists and capitalists.
Moving an adjournment question notice, Congress members claimed that areas specified arsenic Surguja, Hasdeo Aranya coalfields, Tamnar and Bastar were witnessing wide protests and roadworthy blockades, alleging that fake nationalist hearings were being conducted for the support of ember mines.
The Congress alleged that unprecedented deforestation was being witnessed successful the Tamnar country successful Raigarh, and large-scale felling of trees was allegedly taking spot connected wood and gross land.
Citing Hasdeo Arand—often referred to arsenic the ‘lungs of Chhattisgarh’— the Opposition MLAs said that deforestation successful the region has already led to nonaccomplishment of lakhs of trees, and poses superior threats to biodiversity, h2o resources and elephant corridors. They warned that continued deforestation could intensify human-elephant struggle and worsen h2o scarcity.
The adjournment question connection besides said “there are wide instances of fraudulent nationalist hearings, nationalist protests, lathi-charges, sit-ins, and roadworthy blockades”.
Responding to the allegations, Forest and Climate Change Minister Kedar Kashyap said the Vishnu Deo Sai Government was delicate towards forests, wildlife, tribals and the environment, and was committed to their extortion and conservation, adjacent arsenic helium rejected claims of fake nationalist hearings, protests and lathi-charges.
He cited the Forest Survey of India (FSI), Dehradun, to assertion that Chhattisgarh’s wood screen had accrued by 94.75 sq km, portion the country nether ‘trees extracurricular forests’ had risen by 702 sq km, the highest successful the country, helium said.
Mr. Kashyap said that implicit the past 2 years, lone 5 mining cases involving 1,300.869 hectares of wood onshore had been diverted nether the Forest (Conservation) Act, strictly successful accordance with rules and aft obtaining support from the Central Government. He besides refuted claims of large-scale deforestation and quoted tree-felling figures mode little than those claimed by the Opposition. He added that compensatory afforestation was being carried retired successful each wood onshore diversion cases.
After the Minister’s reply, Speaker Raman Singh disallowed the adjournment question notice, and Congress members started sloganeering against the government. They past trooped successful the Well of the House, pursuing which the Speaker announced the suspension of 30 Congress members. The suspension was revoked by the Speaker a fewer minutes later.
