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The senior Congress leader, who is in-charge of party affairs in the state Digvijaya Singh said Congress would prefer to sit in the opposition in case of less numbers in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and wondered how Jayant Chaudhary can claim to the chief ministerial post when his party is contesting only 46 seats.
Coming to the defence of Union Ministers Salman Khurshid and Beni Prasad Verma, who have made promises on enhancing Muslim quota during electioneering, Singh made light of the remarks saying in an highly emotional campaign, “such things happen”.
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said that his party was not open to the alliance with SP Digvijya singh told on Mulayam Singh Yadav indicated a post-poll alliance with Congress, Singh said that the voter should not be confused by misleading statements from various opposition leaders and Congress was confident of coming out a winner.
Congress has not been in power for the last 22 years and should now be a given a chance. Voters have made up their mind and they will support us, he said. The high voter turnout indicated that there was a wave of anti-incumbency and also…
BJP’s senior leader Arun Jaitley on Sunday alleged that the Congress is trying to communalise in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. He was referring to Congress leader and Union law minister Salman Khurshid’s reported comment that Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi had tears in her eyes when the issue of Batla house encounter was put up before her.
“Congress has deployed two of its leaders (Digvijaya Singh and Salman Khurshid) to spread communal feeling amongst the voters, while the rest pretend to speak on developmental issues,” Jaitley said at a pr-ess conference.
Digvijaya Singh attacked on the Samajwadi Party for bringing a “communal” Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid to share a platform “for petty political gains” and said Anna Hazare believes in violence. Singh said on Monday that the Shahi Imam, Maulana Ahmed Bukhari, is “a man of communal temperament”, and that he “even glorified terror icon Osama bin Laden”.
Singh also criticized Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev for their anti-Congress stance. “The Gandhian thinking of Anna Hazare changed after he went close to Sangh and BJP. Today he has turned ‘hinsak’ (violent) from ‘ahinsak’ (non-violent)” .
Digvijaya Singh sounded confident of his party occupying either the first or the second spot in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Singh said that he would hold himself responsible if the Congress did not do very well in the elections and failed to secure the top or the second position after the votes are counted on March 6.
Singh alleged that in the last 22 years no state government in Uttar Pradesh has looked into the problems of weavers, for whom a special package of Rs 6,000 crore has been announced by the Centre. He also said that there was a lack…