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Digvijay to sue Shivraj after courting arrest in vain

Last Updated 26 July 2018, 17:09 IST

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday said he will sue Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for calling him a traitor after the Bhopal police refused the former chief minister's demand to arrest him.

Singh, along with a large number of Congress leaders and workers, including MPCC president Kamal Nath went to the Tatya Tope Nagar police station in Bhopal and dared police officers to arrest him if they have any proof of him being a traitor.

Later, Digvijay Singh claimed that police gave him in writing that no case of sedition was registered against him and, therefore, he could not be arrested.

“Now I have written evidence to prove the chief minister’s allegation against me wrong and I will file a defamation case against him,” the Congress leader said.

Earlier, Digvijay Singh had sued Union minister Uma Bharti for accusing him of embezzling Rs 15,000 crore as Madhya Pradesh chief minister for ten years between 1993 and 2003. The case is still pending in a Bhopal court. She had repeated this allegation several times while spearheading the BJP campaign for the 2003 assembly election as the party’s chief ministerial candidate.

Digvijay Singh claimed that Uma Bharti is forced to settle for a compromise in the defamation case as she could not substantiate her allegation in the last 15 years.

“Likewise, I will force Shivraj Singh to apologise for his false allegation against me,” he said.

Patriot or traitor

However, unfazed by Digvijay Singh’s threat, Shivraj Singh said, “Those who called Osama Bin Laden as Osamaji and made objectionable comment against the police officer who was martyred in the Batla police encounter with alleged terrorists in Delhi should decide who is a patriot and who is traitor.

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(Published 26 July 2018, 16:07 IST)

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