Bhopal--Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said he has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi seeking an appointment to request her to act against Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh for “hatching a conspiracy” to malign him and his wife Sadhna by levelling baseless allegations against them.
“You are a woman, you know how bad a woman feels when false allegations are levelled against her,’’ Chouhan wrote, reacting on the issue for the first time since the Special Investigation Team (SIT) submitted before the High Court that documentary evidence had been forged to mislead the investigation.
“She could not sleep for nights. You can understand her pain. Is it a crime to be the CM’s wife?’’ asked Chouhan while referring to Digvijaya Singh’s allegations that a hard disk had been tampered with to replace Chouhan’s name with that of others, and that text messages were sent from his wife’s phone.
Chouhan is trying to do what Congress leaders did to him by calling on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with what they called “documentary evidence about Chouhan’s personal involvement” and asking him to act against him.
He recalled that Digvijaya Singh was accompanied by Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia when he addressed a press conference in Bhopal.
Chouhan said he would ask Sonia Gandhi if she had authorised the leaders to level allegations against him, or else crack the whip against them “because the unsubstantiated charges took their toll on the Congress’s credibility”.
Indian Express
