BHOPAL: A day after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan suspended officials during his Jandarshan campaign, PCC chief Kamal Nath on Wednesday said gimmicks are being played to mislead people in areas that are scheduled to go for bypolls. He challenged Chouhan to openly ask the people about corruption in Madhya Pradesh.
Taking to Twitter, Nath said, “First, he had come out to dig pits to bury the mafia, but till date he could not dig one. And now, he says he will take a stick to punish the corrupt and that too only in poll-bound areas.”
In a second tweet, the former chief minister said, “Show courage to ask questions on corruption to the people in any part of the state and from any dais, you will get so much evidence that even your stick will fall short. In any case, ever since the Shivraj-led BJP government came to power in the state, corruption is at its peak. No work of the people gets done without give and take.”
Nath said that Chouhan should start using his stick on his ministers and officials close to him. “Anyway, if the chief minister has to rectify irregularities, then he should first start using the stick on his ministers and officials who are close to him, where the rate of corruption is fixed and known to one and all. These are the centres of corruption,” he alleged.
“The truth is that Shivraj ji is doing such gimmicks only to mislead the people in poll-bound areas. The corrupt have the protection of BJP leaders and ministers,” Nath added.
