Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s 50 per cent commission tweet has snowballed into a major controversy with more than 40 First Information Reports (FIRs) registered so far in the poll-bound state of Madhya Pradesh.
Reacting to the emerging political scenario, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Madhya Pradesh chief Vishnu Dutt Sharma said that this is a serious matter and how such a big national party can make allegations on the basis of a false letter. He claimed that the letter was fabricated and is an example of politics of lies and deceit. Digvijay Singh did not tweet on this. Kamal Nath has now proved to be Jhoothnath. This is nothing but a conspiracy. There is a conspiracy to defame the government.
He said that this is a criminal offence. Complaint has also been made inside cybercrime. Congress has done this in a planned manner. On Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sharma said, “I had already reminded Priyanka Gandhi that this is not Karnataka but Madhya Pradesh. Train of lies runs sometimes, not always. This is Madhya Pradesh where the BJP rules”.
Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Madhya Pradesh had filed complaints against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, MP Congress chief Kamal Nath and former Union Minister Arun Yadav’s Twitter handles over a post accusing the state government in Madhya Pradesh of corruption.
According to a statement released on the official X (formally known as Twitter) handle of Indore Commissioner of Police (CP) late on Saturday night, local BJP’s legal cell convener Nimesh Pathak lodged a complaint with claims of a fake letter, bearing the name of a person named, Gyanendra Awasthi, was being circulated on social media with allegations that the contractors in the state were being asked to pay 50 per cent commission.
Based on the complaint, a case under sections 420, and 469 of IPC was registered at Indore’s Sanyogitaganj police station, the police said.
A similar case under sections 469, 500, and 501 of the IPC was registered in Bhopal as well following a complaint by local leaders of the party, officials said. Earlier on Friday, Congress national general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi, alleged that a union of contractors from Madhya Pradesh had written a letter to the Chief Justice of the High Court, complaining their payment is released only after paying 50 per cent commission. “The Union of Contractors in Madhya Pradesh has written a letter to the Chief Justice of the High Court complaining that payment is received only after paying 50 per cent commission in the state. The corrupt BJP government in Karnataka used to collect a 40 per cent commission. In Madhya Pradesh, BJP has gone ahead by breaking its own record of corruption. The people of Karnataka ousted the government with a 40 per cent commission, now the people of Madhya Pradesh will remove the BJP government with a 50 per cent commission from power,” Priyanka said in a tweet.
After this Kamalnath and Arun Yadav also made similar posts. Terming Priyanka Gandhi’s allegation false, MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra said that “From the tweet, the mentality of the Congress can be known, how much disgusting politics the Congress is doing and at present, how much politics based on lies the Congress is doing in Madhya Pradesh. It is also proved that currently, the Congress is issueless in the state.” “Priyanka Gandhi ji…first Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh, and Arun Yadav made your brother (Rahul Gandhi) lie about farmers’ loan waiver of Rs 2 lakhs in the state during the last state assembly polls. Now they have made you to tweet on the basis of a false letter. They proved you a ‘liar’. People already have no faith in Congress and your false tweets have shattered their thoughts about you,” he said.
“I would like to Challenge congressmen to give proof about the allegation made in the tweet otherwise he had all options open to take action into the matter,” Mishra added.
