The dying of two pilots in a state government-owned chopper crash in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur on Thursday has became a political controversy with each ruling Congress and opposition BJP levelling fees in opposition to one another after revelations that the helicopter had been dealing with technical points for years.
“There has been some negligence somewhere over the helicopter’s maintenance. I demand a high-level enquiry,” BJP chief of opposition Dharamlal Kaushik stated on Friday. Several different BJP leaders additionally raised questions on the accident and the federal government’s subsequent assertion on the chopper’s technical malfunction.
The twin-engine, AW 109 Power Elite helicopter, used to ferry VIPs together with the CM , was purchased in 2007 by the then BJP authorities led by Raman Singh after its previous helicopter crashed in July 2007, killing all 4 folks on board, together with two pilots.
On Friday, at the same time as a DGCA group landed in Raipur to probe the accident, Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla stated the BJP was intentionally attempting to politicise the dying of two pilots and defame them. “The pilots were adept at their jobs and they themselves oversaw maintenance of the chopper. But the BJP has forgotten some facts. The chopper had faced technical glitches soon after it was bought from an unauthorised shell company in Hong Kong by the BJP at a hiked price of Rs 65 lakh,” he stated.
