State Industry Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya who has the knack of courting controversy for his off-the-cuff remarks, appeared to have gone deliberately on a collision course with the Election Commission of India.
Sources in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that fearing defeat in the Assembly elections Vijayvargiya did not wish to contest the Assembly elections but was eyeing for the Indore lok Sabha seat.
The recent behaviour of the Minister has also given air to the speculations that fearing defeat from the Mhow Assembly constituency he wanted that something like that happen that Election Commission disqualify him from contesting this assembly election. So that his reputation also remained maintained and as per the strategy he would become contender for the Indore lok Sabha seat.
Political circles in the state are agog with this strategy of Vijayvargiya.
As per his strategy first he openly distributed money among a section of people in a religious function at Mhow and subsequent complaint of that was done with the Election Commission (EC) by the Congress party.
Vijayvargiya does not stop after this and struck again in a function and said that he did not believe in the Election Commission and its election code of conduct.
Taking serious note of Vijayvargiya’s remarks against the EC, the State Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja brought Vijayvargiya’s statements into the notice of EC, seeking a disciplinary action against him. EC also called for the report of his behavior from the Indore collector.