Chouhan slams Diggy in MP Assy
Bhopal, Feb 23 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today targeted All India Congress Committee General Secretary and former chief minister Digvijay Singh by saying that the strength the Congress ought to display as the Assembly's main opposition was being demonstrated by its leaders through rallies that were part of a battle for dominance.
''That party has failed in fulfilling its role in the opposition,'' he said while placing the Congress in the dock during a reply to a three-day debate on Governor Balram Jakhar's address to the Vidhan Sabha on February 19 -- the budget session's inaugural day.
Pointing out that the Assembly was a forum in which the opposition could corner the government, Mr Chouhan alleged that the Congress was neither aware nor alert.
Referring to the alleged battle for dominance between Mr Singh and the Congress' Guna MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, he added that the rallies were neither for public welfare nor against government policies but were unalloyedly for demonstrating strength.
Taking
a
dig
at
Mr
Singh's
declaration
--
made
during
2003
--
that
he
would
not
accept
any
post
for
a
decade,
the
Chief
Minister
said,
''it
seems
that
the
memory
of
the
chief
ministerial
chair
keeps
haunting
him.
Towering
leaders
such
as
Mr
Singh
and
state
Congress
President
Subhash
Yadav
should
attend
House
proceedings
in
their
capacity
as
members.''
UNI