Bhopal: As the ruling Congress in Madhya Pradesh and opposition BJP continued to trade charges over repeated assaults on BJP leaders including two murders in the last five days, state’s former chief minister Digvijaya Singh claimed that these attacks were a result of land and money deals among the BJP leaders.
“Whatever anomalies had taken place over land deals and transaction of money are now leading to murders of the BJP leaders,” Singh told mediapersons at New Delhi. “People have realised that the government has changed and Congress has come to power. That is why all these disputes are coming to fore. Our government will probe all these cases,” he added.
BJP national vice-president and former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan termed the repeated assaults “unfortunate and unprecedented”.
“This never happened in MP before. The state is witnessing an unfortunate and unprecedented situation. The BJP workers are being attacked continuously and two of our senior workers have lost their lives in these attacks,” Chouhan said on Monday. He added that the party has received murder report of two of its leaders — Manoj Thackeray and Prahlad Bandhwar.
“The criminals are absolutely fearless and the state is witnessing a law and order breakdown,” added Chouhan.
The former MP chief minister said the Congress ministers are behaving like small-time leaders as by calling these murders BJP’s internal matter.
The BJP leaders and workers staged protest across the state against ‘poor’ law and order, and attacks on their party leaders. “We only staged a symbolic protest on Monday and if the murderers continue to roam around free, we will be compelled to take to the streets again,” Chouhan said.
Meanwhile, the body of Chhatar Singh, brother of BJP’s rural district secretary Narendra Singh Rawat, was found on Monday. Singh, who worked as a bus conductor and was missing since Sunday. His body was found on the banks of river Parvati and carried multiple injury marks.
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