Raipur, January 21,
2012
Sharply reacting over
reports of increased security arrangements at the place where Ramvilas Vedanti
is delivering discourses in Durg, the Congress has said that Chief Minister
Raman Singh was following Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s footsteps to fight next
Assembly elections in 2013. “This is strange. Vedanti is absconding in state
police record. There has been case registered against him, still the government
is providing him protection. This is autocratic and sheer deliberation to
disturb peace and tranquility of the state,” said PCC’s chief spokesperson
Shailesh Nitin Trivedi on Saturday.
“Scared of its rapidly
declining popularity in the state the BJP government is using Vedanti as a tool
through which want to gain political mileage for next elections,” Trivedi added.
Notably, Vedanti is a
three-time MP from BJP and is alleged to have remarked against Congress head
Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and minority communities at Rajim
kumbh on March 3, 2008.
On March 4, 2008, the Congress
members led by former PCC president Charandas Mahant and former leader of the
opposition Mahendra Karma submitted a memorandum to the then Governor ESL Narasimhan
demanding Vedanti’s arrest.
“When the Governor
asked the government to take action against the so-called saint, it first
consulted the advocate-general and then directed Rajim police to register a
criminal case against him under section 153(A) and 504 of IPC. However, Vedanti
was neither held at that time nor at present. The Congress demands from the
government to stop protecting Vedanti and take apt against him quickly,”
Trivedi said.
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