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<\/div>\nDigvijaya Singh said the BJP is planning riots in Madhya Pradesh (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Veteran Congress leader, Digvijaya Singh, has triggered a massive row with his controversial remarks against the BJP, drawing sharp condemnation from its party leaders.<\/p>\n
Digvijaya Singh alleged the BJP is “planning communal riots” in Madhya Pradesh before the assembly elections, just as they “orchestrated violence” in Haryana’s Nuh.<\/p>\n
“The way these people caused communal violence in Nuh in Haryana, they have plans to instigate such riots (in Madhya Pradesh),” Mr Singh said while addressing a gathering of lawyers in Bhopal.<\/p>\n
Mr Singh said the BJP is planning riots in Madhya Pradesh because the party can sense its imminent defeat in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n
“The BJP knows there is a lot of resentment against the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state,” he said.<\/p>\n
‘Hopefully, we are going to form the next government in the state,” he added.<\/p>\n
Responding to the allegations, state BJP President VD Sharma said, the veteran leader has no creditability left in the party.<\/p>\n
Dubbing him “Mr Bhantadar (Disaster)”, Mr Sharma said, “he is known for making such baseless allegations.”<\/p>\n
“The BJP does politics of development. Digivijay Singh left Madhya Pradesh in 2003 in a pitiable condition, and it was his party which made development in the region,” Mr Sharma said.<\/p>\n
BJP has announced 21 candidates for the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly and 39 for the 230-member Madhya Pradesh House.<\/p>\n
At least six people, including two home guards and a mosque cleric, were killed in the clashes in Haryana’s Nuh earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The clash broke out over an attempt to stop a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession and later spread to Gurugram, Palwal and other districts of Haryana. Several vehicles, food joints, and shops were set on fire by unruly mobs.<\/p>\n
More than 390 people have been arrested and 118 others detained in connection with the violence, officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n