In a bid to woo investors in Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the industrialists are neither required to pay hidden taxes, nor they have to enter into any agreement with the ruling party to venture in the state.
"I am proud that the industrialists just have to pay the legitimate taxes, and they do not have to spent any other money and waste time to venture in Madhya Pradesh," Chouhan told reporters after a BJP function here last night.
"Industrialists making ventures in other states have to enter into different agreements with ruling parties," he said.
Chouhan refused to comment over Congress general secretary Divijay Singh's statement that the BJP was a commerical political outfit.
Singh had told reporters yesterday that BJP was a commercial outfit and sought to know how much money it had gathered unlawfully from the industrialists in the state.
To a query, Chouhan said that no single leader of BJP was involved with the land mafias, against whom the state government was running a drive.
No BJP leader has tried to influence the ongoing drive against the land mafias, he added.
