Cong tribute prog turns into forum for political talks

Raipur, June 06, 2013

The tribute programme of state Congress for its partymen, who lost their lives during May 25-naxal attack, turned into a forum of political talks as old foes AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh and party MLA Ajit Jogi used the occasion to settle scores through verbal assaults.

In his address, Jogi covertly trained his guns towards Singh and said only leaders of Chhattisgarh would help Congress win assembly polls, not anybody from Fatehgarh, Pratapgarh or elsewhere outside state. Notably, Singh hails from Raghogarh (Madhya Pradesh).

Jogi said neither he was power hungry nor Congress. He said the party wanted to come to power but for people, not self.

“The party will earn victory in elections through hard work of workers, not through tours of outsiders,” he said pointing indirectly towards Singh’s recent state visit to participate in parivartan yatra and current visit under which the latter met several party leaders besides meeting family members of deceased Congmen.

Singh, on the other hand, said Chhattisgarh had always hosted outsiders warmly and given importance to them. Indirectly referring Jogi’s recent statements on May 25 incident he said the party leaders should avoid temptation of talking publicly about the matter.

By far, Singh had refrained from talking on Jogi despite allegations of conspiracy being levelled towards the latter on naxal attack by section of Congmen and BJP. However, he decided to launch salvo against Jogi during tribute programme before ending his Chhattisgarh visit.  

Union minister of state and acting PCC president Charandas Mahant said working unitedly and winning upcoming Vidhan Sabha polls would be true tribute to the deceased Congmen.

On the occasion were present CLP leader Ravindra Choubey, Laxman Singh, Satyanarayan Sharma, Bhupesh Baghel, TS Singhdeo, Devvrat Singh, Shiv Kumar Daharia, Kuldeep Juneja, Subhash Sharma, Ramgopal Agrawal, Inderchand Dhariwal, Pankaj Sharma, Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, Mahendra Chhabda, Sushil Anand Shukla, Rajesh Bissa, Kiranmayi Nayak, etc.