Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A war of words has exploded between the Congress and BJP over Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia’s old letter. In the month of January this year, Union minister Scindia had written a letter to Sheopur collector seeking help for a farmer.
On Monday in Vijaypur constituency of Sheopur, Congress state president Jitu Pawari while addressing a public gathering took a jibe at Scindia. The seat was won by Congress in the recently held by-poll. While addressing a gathering, Patwari called a senior citizen on stage, took a letter from him and showed it to the audience.
The Congress leader claimed that the senior citizen (pointing towards the man on stage) had approached Scindia to seek help to get back his land, which was illegally occupied by some land-grabbers. ‘It’s been almost one year since this letter was written but action is awaited. Scindia understood the problem of this helpless senior citizen and wrote to the district collector for action, but nothing happened so far. It means Scindia’s letter has no value in the BJP government,’ Patwari said.
BJP state president VD Sharma responded and hit back at Patwari, alleging that the Congress leader was trying to mislead people through his false claims. ‘Jyotiraditya Scindia is a senior and respected BJP leader and his family has a strong connection with RSS. Scindia’s family has always adopted the path of ‘jan seva’. Frustrated with back-to-back defeat in elections, Congress leaders are making false statements against Scindia.’
