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Arrest me if I am anti-national, Digvijaya Singh tells Shivraj Singh Chouhan

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Bhopal | After Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan called his actions and statements anti-national, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today said he would appear before police and they could arrest him.

“I have taken the oath to follow Constitution. So I have decided to present myself before the law to protect the unity and integrity of India….I would present myself at TT Nagar Police Station (in Bhopal) on July 26,” Singh said in a letter to Chouhan. “Meanwhile, submit the evidence of my being anti-national to your administration, so that they can file a case and arrest me,” the senior Congress leader said.

Chouhan had slammed the former chief minister for ‘visiting the homes of slain terrorists’ and talking about “Hindu terrorism” two days ago. “Talking about Hindu terrorism is an insult to the country and its culture. He is the kind of person who visits the homes of terrorists killed by police and glorifies them.

Many times, such acts of Digvijay-ji seem anti-national,” a BJP release quoted Chouhan as saying at Satna on July 19. In an apparent reference to Singh’s calling Osama bin Laden as “Osama-ji”, Chouhan asked, according to the BJP release, if adding the honorific ‘Ji’ for a terrorist was not an anti-national act.

In his letter, Singh said, “Being the chief minister, it is your constitutional duty to take legal action if any such case falling under the category of anti-nationalism comes to your knowledge.” If the chief minister does not have any evidence against him, then he should apologise, Singh demanded.

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Prolonged suspension ‘illegal’, dissolve Jammu & Kashmir Assembly soon: JKNPP

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Jammu | The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party today reiterated its demand for dissolution of the Assembly, saying it was “illegal” to keep the Legislative Assembly under prolonged suspension.

The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was put under suspended animation on June 20, after imposition of governor’s rule in the state following collapse of the government led by PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.

JKNPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh today said an atmosphere of uncertainty had been created which did not augur well for the health of the sensitive border state.

“Over a month has passed since the fall of the BJP-PDP government and imposition of governor’s rule in the state but keeping the Assembly in suspended animation is against the mandate of the Constitution and existing precedents,” Singh told reporters in Jammu.

“The prolonged suspension of the state assembly is illegal which defied all the precedents, constitutional provisions and plethora of judgments passed by the courts in the past,” he said.

The former minister also accused the BJP of holding the constitution “hostage” through proxy for its unethical political interests.

“It (BJP) could go to any extreme to satiate its greed for power which could be gauged by their dirty skill of converting members of other parties into ‘turncoats’ as witnessed in other states of late,” he said.

Singh said no political party or combination of parties have staked claim to form the government with rumour mills churning overtime giving rise to political instability in the state.

“None of the political parties were able to reach the magic figure of 45 required to form the government and in such a scenario keeping the Assembly in suspended animation only desecrates the sanctity of democratic institutions,” the JKNPP leader said.

“With reports of horse-trading, allurements of MLAs and other unethical practices for government formation hitting headlines every other day in the state, an atmosphere of uncertainty has been created which does not augur well for the health of a sensitive state like Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.

He said while the media was abuzz with the reports of political defections on a regular basis, former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti too complained of money and muscle power being used to lure MLAs to form the government.

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