Reacting on the statement of the Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi that Nandkumar Patel was to become Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, hence he was murdered, State president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ramsewak Paikra questioned that which of the State Congress leaders knows that the Congress wants to make late Patel Chief Minister.
In a party press statement issued here on Saturday, Paikra said that on the one hand the Congress has not been weary of saying that it has no tradition of projecting Chief Minister candidate, on the other the party vice-president Rahul says that it has been decided to make Patel Chief Minister, hence he was killed. The question here is, whether the Congress had been telling lies, or its Shahzade is telling lie, he said.
Paikra said that if Rahul is right in his words, why he has not informed the decision of the party to its leaders in Chhattisgarh. He said that the Naxalite attack on Patel could be the result of the cut-throat competition in the Congress in chase for Chief Minister post. Because, a secretary of the party had also allegedly said that people in the Congress had given contract to get Patel eliminated.
Now, with the statement of Rahul, this fact has been confirmed that the Darbha attack was finally the result of the Congress gang war. How, the thing that Rahul revealed for the first time in the election meeting, could be known to an outsider, he questioned.
Paikra said that Rahul Gandhi was in the habit of telling baseless things. Enslaved with this, he had said that for the first time a chief secretary accused a minister with corruption. Rahul was telling lie that the chief secretary had said this, whereas, the truth is that former coal secretary PC Parekh had openly said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the main accused in the coal scam. Now, everybody know that Manmohan Singh and his Government work on whose guidelines, he added.
He said that Rahul sees fear in Chhattisgarh, not shine. Perhaps, he might have remembered the three-year rule of the Congress, he added.