With the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh approaching very fast, the war of words between the ruling BJP and main opposition Congress has intensified. While the Congress has alleged widespread corruption in the State Government, the BJP raked up the issue of sliding rupee, blaming the UPA Government for its downfall.
The BJP disclosed that it would contest the elections by comparing the situation of Madhya Pradesh in 2003 when Digvijay Singh was the chief minister and present situation under its regime.
Addressing a convention of the party workers here on Thursday, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, “When the UPA took charge of the country, rupee was equivalent to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s age (43) against a dollar. Now it is trading at around the age of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and if the UPA remained in power for some more time, the Indian currency will soon touch the age of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.”
Chouhan said that after gauging people’s mood, he was confident that the BJP will score a historic win in the Assembly elections, slated by year end.
Even as the opposition Congress earlier tried to target Chouhan for alleged dumper scam and construction of a warehouse within the radius of an archaeologically protected monument in Vidisha, the Chief Minister, during the launch of his Yatra at Ujjain, had said, “I challenge them to ask Congress president Sonia Gandhi about the wealth acquired by her son-in-law Robert Vadra.”
However, in no mood to budge before the saffron outfit, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday alleged that the RSS has been giving training in the making of bombs.
State Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya was quick to ask as why Digvijay Singh, who was MP Chief Minister for 10 years, did not take any action against the organisation during his tenure. “When RSS was making bombs, was Digvijay making bhajiyasIJ” Vijayvargiya said in an SMS circulated to reporter last night by BJP’s State unit media department.
leader of Opposition in State Assembly, Ajay Singh has also been frequently training his guns on Chouhan over the issue of alleged corruption by his close relatives. On Thursday he alleged that Shivraj was feared of his wife Sadhna Singh and brother-in-law Sanjay Masani. He compared the alleged mining scam in MP with the one at Bellary in Karnataka and also termed the recent Pre-Medical Test (PMT) scam as bigger than the fodder scam of Bihar.