Congress on Friday alleged “gross irregularities” in the course of the election for president and vice-president of Bhopal Janpad Panchayat as senior get together chief Digvijaya Singh and others clashed with police.
A video displaying Singh, a former chief minister, in a heated argument with police personnel whereas allegedly in search of to cease a girl voter from getting into the premises of the district Panchayat workplace right here went viral. Singh later claimed that his objection was to BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma getting into the premises.
Sharma and City Improvement Minister Bhupendra Singh had accompanied the lady voter. Whereas Congress alleged that the lady was a Congress supporter however the BJP leaders pressurized her, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan condemned Digvijaya Singh’s behaviour.
Singh claimed in a press release later that as he was objecting to Rameshwar Sharma getting into the premises together with the lady voter, the policemen on responsibility pushed him.I used to be making an attempt to cease police from pushing me and didn’t seize the collar of any policeman as alleged by Chief Minister Chouhan, the Congress veteran mentioned.
Whereas Chouhan alleged that he (Singh) pushed the gate of the collector’s workplace, he by no means went to the collector’s workplace in the course of the day, Singh claimed. Congress chief Suresh Pachori, a former Union minister, and get together MLAs P C Sharma and Arif Masood had been additionally current when Digvijaya, 75, and a policeman had been seen pushing one another.
Later, Congress leaders alleged in a memorandum to the State Election Fee that gross irregularities had been carried out by the ruling BJP, native administration and police within the Zila Panchayat polls. Zila Panchayat members had been taken to Chief Minister Chouhan’s residence and later to the polling centre in a authorities automobile below police safety, Congress alleged.
Ministers Bhupendra Singh and Vishvas Sarang accompanied these voters and this was an try to rig the polls, it claimed.
The Congress’ memorandum additionally alleged that ‘tender votes’ (votes forged by a proxy) had been forged instead of zila panchayat members in violation of guidelines. No motion was taken by the authorities regardless of repeated complaints, therefore the polls for Bhopal Zila Panchayat president’s publish have to be annulled, the opposition get together demanded.
State Congress chief Kamal Nath alleged that the BJP received the Zila Panchayat president’s publish by indulging in gross irregularities. Hitting again, CM Chouhan mentioned Digvijaya’s behaviour with the policeman didn’t befit the stature of a former chief minister. Such “smug acts” are a mirrored image of the truth that Congress is shedding its base, the CM added.
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