Digvijay Singh says Congress votes get reduced if he campaigns

Bhopal, Oct 16 A controversy erupted in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh Tuesday after a video circulated around the web in which senior Congress pioneer Digvijay Singh is heard saying that his party's votes get decreased in the event that he campaigns for it.

The video was recorded on October 13 yet it developed on multi day Congress president Rahul Gandhi is in the state to battle for the upcoming Assembly elections.

Essentially, Singh, the two-time previous boss priest of Madhya Pradesh, has been obvious by his absence in the projects and arouses which Gandhi has been tending to in the state in the course of the most recent couple of weeks.

".. mera kaam keval ek. Koi prachar nahi, koi bhashan nahi. Unimportant bhashan dene se to Congress ke vote kat-te hai, mai jata nahi" (I have only one job, no campaigning, no speech.

When I deliver a speech, Congress cast a ballot get decreased, so I don't go)," Singh is heard saying in the video.

In the video, in which he is seen talking casually to party specialists at the home of MLA Jitu Patwari here, Singh also advises Congress workers to battle for competitors wholeheartedly to accomplish triumph.

"Dekho, khwaab dekhte rah jaaoge agar kaam nahi kiya to.

Nahi banegi sarkar agar aise kaam kiya to. Jisko ticket mile, chahe dushman ko mile, jitao (You will keep envisioning on the off chance that you don't work. You can't shape the administration on the off chance that you work this way. Regardless of whether the ticket is given to an opponent in the gathering, you ought to guarantee his triumph)," he is seen telling the party workers.

"It isn't being appeared in the right manner, especially the first part. If you hear the first part, you will understand it in a proper way," Singh said.

The ruling BJP rushed to attack the restriction party over Singh's remarks, with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan saying the Congress ought not treat one of its senior leaders in this manner.

"We (BJP) have not given him (Singh) this torment. It was given by the Congress itself. His blurbs are not being set up, he isn't being given prominence," Chouhan said.

"I never imagined the Congress will treat one of its leaders in this way. Congressmen should, in any event, regard their leader," the chief minister added.

State Congress chief Kamal Nath parried questions on Singh's video by saying, "I am not mindful of the setting in which he was expressing this".

Polls for the 230-member MP Assembly are scheduled for November 28 while counting of votes will be taken up on December 11.