Wednesday 27 November 2013

Crimes by Jogis- Ajit Jogi and Amit Jogi crimes

Ajit Jogi is the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. He ruled for 3 years from November 2000 when the state was carved out of Madhya Pradesh to 4 December 2003. A mechanical engineer passing from the Maulana Azad NIT (then REC) in Bhopal in 1967, he later passed IAS. Later he joined the Congress and was the favorite of Rajiv Gandhi and also Sonia Gandhi. His wife is Renu Jogi and son is Amit Jogi. 

 It will take an encyclopedia to even compile the list of crimes committed by the Jogi family- Jogi father son duo. Let us first see the issues involving Amit Jogi:
 1- Amit Jogi is the prime accused in the Ram Avtar Jaggi murder case. NCP Chhattisgarh treasurer was murdered on 4 June 2003. Few months earlier V C Shukla had left the Congress to join NCP along with his supporters. Ajit Jogi- the then Chief Minister- was miffed at this, and managed to get back many of Shukla's men from NCP back to the Congress. But Ram Avtar Jaggi did not return and stayed with V C Shukla and was murdered on 4 June 2003. Even the Congress Bureau of Investigation said Amit Jogi was the brain and the prime conspirator in this.

 Jogi was acquitted by the trial court in 2007. But the CBI filed an appeal against his acquittal. Actually the CBI urged the Central Government to give permission for filing an appeal, which was delayed for 4 years, and as soon as the permission was got, it filed an appeal.

2- Amit Jogi gave the IAS exam in 2001 despite being a US citizen under the SC category when his father Ajit Jogi was the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-10-14/indians-abroad/27184771_1_indian-citizenship-amit-jogi-home-ministry 

 3- The Times of India reported that his parents got an ST certificate for him in 1986 at Bilaspur though he was a US citizen at that time, which is illegal. Same article as above. 

 4- It is alleged that Amit Jogi gave the IAS on the fake ST certificate, though he claims he had informed the UPSC of his being a US citizen. But it is not possible to give IAS 'informing' anyone and the concerned people also denied anything like this, meaning that the charge that Amit Jogi used his fake certificate made in 1986 to give IAS seems to be true.

 5- Amit Jogi was a US citizen and got Indian citizenship only in July 2004. His Indian visa expired on 31 October 2003 yet he continued to stay illegally in India even more than 1 and a half months after his visa expired. He was a holder of US passport no Z-7912540, on a long-term visa, valid for five years from its issue in October 1998.

6- The CBI, as good as Congress Bureau of Investigation, also said in July 2005 (Under UPA rule) that Amit Jogi was behind the sting operation of Dilip Singh Judeo. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Amit-Jogi-behind-Judeo-sting-CBI/articleshow/1178316.cms 

7- Even Congress loyalist Outlook reported the role of Jogis in this case. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?222589 

8- Of course, now it has come to light that Amit Jogi gave 3 different versions of his birthplace and date of birth.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/new-revelations-about-amit-jogi-could-spell-embarrassment-for-rahul/article5298139.ece 

These are just the issues involving Amit Jogi. The Cash-for-MLAs scam of 2003 in which Ajit Jogi, Amit Jogi and SONIA GANDHI are all involved is given here. http://secularjournalists.blogspot.in/2013/05/the-cbi-has-targetted-now-former.html

Ajit Jogi's issues  

1- KODAR DAM: First case of financial impropriety was filed in 1980-81 when the Kodar dam was under construction during Jogi's collectorship in Raipur. This was when as IAS he was Collector and had not resigned from IAS to join politics.

2- HELP TO CIA: During his collectorship in Indore in 1981-85, he was accused of stealing design papers from CAT, Indore (a defence installation) and selling them to the CIA. The charges were never proved but another charge of appropriating land belonging to Church of North India to build a colony was also instituted.

3- FAKE CERTIFICATE: Jogi's ST certificate has been issued by a Pendra tehsildar in 1967. All cases challenging it have been clubbed in the Bilaspur High Court, which will also decide whether the SC/ST Commission of India order proclaiming him an SC (and NOT an ST which he claims) is correct.

4- JUDEV SCAM: The CBI is investigating the Judev VCD. It has tracked certain e-mails by Amit Jogi claiming to have carried out a Tehelka II. Along with Amit, Ajit Jogi is also alleged to have been behind the CD. We have seen CBI and Outlook showing their hands in Amit Jogi's issues above.


Ajit Jogi told a lot more about the Judeo CD than anyone would know. Immediately after Dilip Singh Judeo's press conference in Raipur on Sunday, Jogi had called a press meet where he said the money transaction had taken place in the Taj Hotel in New Delhi. He had also said the money paid to Judeo was more than what Bangaru Laxman had accepted from the Tehelka frontmen. However, neither the newspaper that broke the story nor cable news channels had given these specifications. Then how could Ajit Jogi have known this unless he had a hand in the entire episode? This was also charged by the BJP leader Arun Jaitley.

Congress loyalist weekly Outlook also gave details of Jogi father-son duo's hands in the case. 

5- In May 2011, there was a Lok Sabha bypoll to Bastar seat in Chhattisgarh.  Ajit Jogi was caught on camera distributing cash to voters at an election rally in Bastar, where LS by-poll were held on May 8. 

As a matter of fact, the LS bypoll was held due to death of sitting MP Baliram Kashyap, whose sons were killed by Naxals in September 2009. He was the man who Ajit Jogi tried to install as Chief Minister in December 2003 after losing polls by wooing some BJP MLAs through money, and forming a government with Congress support in the infamous Cash-for-MLA case. 

6- In July 2013 there were further reports of caste certificate of Jogi being fake.The Telegraph reported that the Raman Singh-led BJP government is set to make public a report that says the Congress leader is not a tribal and possesses a fake caste certificate.The state government had set up a high-level, quasi-judicial body to look into Jogi’s caste certificate on a directive from the Supreme Court, which had found evidence on his caste inconclusive while dismissing a petition a few years ago. 

7- Ajit Jogi is also accused of using forged documents while applying for petrol pumps in 1996. BJP spokesman, Prakash Javadekar, said in Nov 2003 that two separate affidavits filed by Jogi in November 1996 said that he was domiciled in Delhi and that the combined income of his family was "not more than Rs. 50,000" in 1993-94 and 1994-95. However, the BJP claimed that it had obtained an income certificate of his wife, Renu Jogi, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, where she was then working, showing that her income in 1993-94 was Rs. 85,946 and in the following year it was Rs. 95,170.

 Armed with this "document", Nand Kumar Sai, the BJP's candidate against Mr. Jogi in the Mirwahi Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh, in the 2003 polls  filed a case with the Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala Courts  charging  Jogi with cheating. 

8- In April 2003 Ajit Jogi claimed to present an IB document as proof of 'witch hunt' by the then NDA government. But this document was also fake, and the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet in October 2003 against Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi for using forged documents to tarnish the Intelligence Bureau's image.
In March 2003, Jogi had alleged that IB's Special Directorate had launched an operation code-named 'Black Sea' to target opposition leaders in the run-up to the elections in Congress-ruled states. The IB all along has denied that there was any operation codenamed 'Black Sea'.

9-  In Nov 2013, while campaigning before the Chhattisgarh polls, he said addressing tribals that they will get an 'electric shock' if they press any button than the Congress' on the Electronic Voting Machine on the polling day while voting. This is on video recording. This is an offence- intimidating voters with fear and basically misguiding gullible tribals. He got a notice from the Election Commission for this.

10- Ajit Jogi is also an accused co-conspirator in the murder of NCP Chhattisgarh treasurer Ram Avtar Jaggi. In Feb 2006 CNN-IBN reported that the CBI has already prepared a draft chargesheet against him in the cash-for-MLAs scam and it is also likely that he might be implicated in the Ram Avtar Jaggi murder case as well. 

11- Ajit Jogi also used government aircraft for party President Sonia Gandhi's work which is also not permitted. The Election Commission trained its ire on former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi and Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh for having used state government aircraft during the December Assembly elections but let off Congress president Sonia Gandhi lightly for a similar act.The Commission had issued a showcause notice to the Congress in Nov 2003 asking why it should not be de-recognised in the wake of its president Sonia Gandhi and Chhattisgarh chief minister and Speaker having used the Chhattisgarh government aircraft for travel while the model code of conduct was in force. The Commission directed the Congress that it must reimburse within 30 days either from its own funds or by recovering from Mr Jogi the total costs of the seven flights undertaken by him and the two flights taken by Ms Gandhi in the Chhattisgarh government aircraft.

   These are legal cases. But there are several other doubts and suspicions on Jogi also. He also said as Chhattisgarh CM in Feb 2003 that tribals are not Hindus. 
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Monday 19 August 2013

Digvijay Singh's lies & reckless statements



Since 2007-2008, the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has been playing the Muslim card and has been making some reckless statements and allegations. He has also accused the BJP of lying and misleading people.

        Let us see his lies:
1-  Digvijay lied that Gujarat CM Modi had lied on claiming to save 15,000 lives in Uttarakhand. He said: “This man (Modi) comes in and claims he has rescued 15,000 people. Don't lie so much Mr Modi, the people aren't that stupid". But Narendra Modi never ever made any such claim. Digvijay can be challenged to show a single statement where Modi said this. It is one newspaper which reported that Modi did so, and despite Modi never claiming anything like this, Digvijay falsely defamed Modi by claiming that Modi had lied on this. The Times of India issued a clarification that no one ever made such a claim on saving 15,000 lives. But Digvijay did not bother to apologize for his wrong allegation.

2- Digvijay Singh falsely alleged that the fake CD of Sanjay Joshi was made by Narendra Modi. (In that, in the first place he accepted that the CD was fake and Sanjay Joshi totally innocent while his party held Sanjay Joshi guilty when the CD surfaced in December 2005 and did not bother to apologize to the innocent, simple and honest man when the lab report of Hyderabad proved that the tape was massively doctored).
 
   What a false defamation of Narendra Modi. No one has ever alleged that Modi got that fake CD ordered. What proof does Digvijay have of this? Zero. Yet he levelled such a horrible character-assassinating charge on an innocent man Narendra Modi, and his party did the same on another honest and pure man Sanjay Joshi. There is no knowledge of who made that fake CD. But it was made in December 2005 at the time of the BJP 25th anniversary celebrations to ruin the matter. So it is suspected quite a lot that someone from the Congress may have done it so as to serve the double goals of putting the blame on perceived opponents of Sanjay Joshi in the BJP (like Uma Bharti who was then expelled from the party days before, or Narendra Modi) as well as cause damage to the BJP on the occasion of its 25th anniversary celebrations. Why would anyone be surprised if Digvijay’s hand itself is suspected in that fake CD- if he can allege Narendra Modi did it without a tiny piece of even allegation, forget evidence?

3- In 2011 before the Assam polls and even after Digvijay equated Bangladeshi Hindu (who are tortured and forced to convert or killed or told to leave Bangladesh) refugees with Bangladeshi Muslim infiltrators. He said thus that the Hindus who come to India to save their lives and religion should be expelled to Bangladesh to die or convert to Islam and suffer tortures but not come to India. His exact words were: “"There's no constitutional provision to treat Hindus coming from Bangladesh and Pakistanis as refugees." And his Congress Party has always protected Muslim infiltrators of Bangladesh by the IMDT Act 1983 and other various tricks.

4- Digvijay Singh attacked Anna Hazare for a photo with RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh in the 1980s while he himself had this photo flanked by people at a much higher position than Nanaji Deshmukh- i.e. the then RSS chief Rajju Bhaiya and VHP acting chief Ashok Singhal.  

 Digvijay Singh also attended a Virat Hindu Sammelan in 1997 when he was seated flanked by the then RSS chief Rajju Bhaiya and VHP working president Ashok Singhal.

5- He claimed in December 2010 that Hemant Karkare had called him on 26 Nov 2008 (which was proved to be false, as the records showed that HE HAD CALLED Karkare's office's landline number and there is no proof at all that Karkare was present at office at that time) and through other statements like 'Karkare was like God to Muslims', launching a book like "26/11 RSS conspiracy" , visiting houses of terrorists in Azamgarh, etc. See his statement:  “Records show that there was a call made from the number 09425015461 (which is registered with Madhya Pradesh Congress) to the number 022-23087336, which is registered on your ATS website. The call was made at 5.44 PM on 26-11-2008. So I ask you to apologise to me.” This shows that call was made FROM DIGVIJAY’s number to Karkare’s office landline number.

   Singh released a book by Urdu journalist Aziz Burney, titled ‘26/11-An RSS Conspiracy’? Though he said he believed 26/11 attacks were done by Pakistani terrorists only, he never condemned people writing such a book and proudly released it. 

6- He first questioned the Batla House encounter of 19 September 2008 and claimed it was fake. His own party’s Home Minister Chidambaram said it was genuine. Even Tehelka said so.The Delhi trial court judgment merely confirms what was common sense on the Batla House case. 5 people were inside, 2 were killed, 1 arrested and 2 escaped (of whom 1 was caught later). Now if the encounter was fake, people like Digvijay want us to believe that the police killed only 2 of them, left 3 witnesses alive who would have testified against the encounter, arrested one and allowed 2 to escape and also killed their own M C Sharma and injured others! What a logic!
    
   Needlessly claiming the encounter to be fake and sticking to it even when the court gave its judgment is blatant violation of 153-A (infuriating a community needlessly).

7- Digivijay hinted at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as having links in the Bodh Gaya blasts in Bihar in July 2013, about which the IB had warned before- that Islamic radicals may attack Bodh Gaya in view of violence in Myanmar (between Muslims and Buddhists).
Tweeting on the terror attack, Singh took a potshot at Modi, saying: "Amit Shah (BJP general secretary) promises a grand temple at Ayodhya. Modi addresses Bihar BJP workers and asks them to teach Nitish (Bihar CM) a lesson. Next day, bomb blasts at Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya. Is there a connect? I don't know."  Notice how carefully Digvijay avoids making a direct allegation but simply uses enough words to say that there could be a Modi hand- what a ridiculous suggestion! 

8-  Digvijay lied again that Sanjiv Bhat of Gujarat is an ‘honest officer’. The whole truth of this can be read in this article Myth 19. The SIT appointed by the Supreme Court with known anti-Modi judges like Arijit Pasayat and Aftab Alam debunked the claim of Sanjiv Bhat that he was present in the 27 Feb meeting and blamed NGOs for forcibly trying to find something against Narendra Modi. This is a must read report of the SIT.

   The SIT report said that Sanjiv Bhat is a manipulator, a fraud, and was fully supported in this trick by Gujarat Congress leaders Arjun Modhvadhia, Shaktisinh Gohil, and activist Teesta Setalvad. The SIT called him a ‘manipulator’ in court. Why would Sanjiv Bhatt have taken 9 years to claim that he was present at that meeting if he really was? The SIT report also says that Bhat asked Rahul Sharma, an IPS officer to find out if Haren Pandya was present in that meeting or not, and to check his mobile records. If Bhat was present, why would he need to ask someone else to find out if Haren Pandya was present or not? And why did he ask him to check his (Bhat’s) mobile records? This shows that Bhat does not recollect his movements on the night of 27 Feb.
    
   For Digvijay Singh, such officers like Bhat are ‘honest and upright officers’. These are Digvijay’s methods to defame Narendra Modi- glorifying frauds. Also, Bhat was on leave from work for more than 60 days without any reason, without any explanation and did not respond to repeated notices and was finally suspended when he tried to become a ‘martyr’. Digvijay is guilty of encouraging officers to remain absent from work for days and not respond to notices and not give any reason, because he condemned the suspension.

9- He claimed in August 2013 that the BJP will pay the fee of Rs 5 for the meeting of Narendra Modi in Hyderabad in August 2013 and claim the people paid it. What a lie and insult of the people who gave Rs5 for Uttarakhand victims and defamation of the party!

10- Digvijay Singh said in an outrageous lie that Mahatma Gandhi had not advocated dissolution of the Congress post Independence and that this claim made by others like Narendra Modi is not true. This is another outrageous lie, and either massive ignorance of facts or blatant twisting of facts despite knowing the bitter truth that Gandhiji indeed said so.

Singh said there was no truth in Modi's claim that after Independence Gandhi advocated that the Congress must be disbanded.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-digvijay-singh-says-narendra-modi-has-no-right-to-invoke-mahatma-gandhis-name-1903173

In the Tamil Nadu Assembly, once Congress MLAs also denied this fact. But the next day Tamil Nadu Chief Minister stunned them by actually bringing Volume 90 of Mahatma Gandhi's complete works and silenced them.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/politics/jaya-produces-proof-on-gandhis-intent-to-dissolve-congress/article4573365.ece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzEE1EPq_F4&noredirect=1

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/jayalalithaa-mocks-congress-members/article4573889.ece

11- On April 18, 2013, he alleged that Modi had hired a PR firm. That is one of the most ridiculous charges, as the Gujarat Government’s PR work has been one of the biggest ever public relations disasters in human history, as the truth of the 2002 riots, and the projections by the media are totally different. Let Digvijay name the PR firm!

   Attacking Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for his "false claims" about development of the state, Digvijaya accused him of hiring public relations companies to boost his image and to spread wrong facts about the state. 

12- In July 2013 he said 'RSS trains activists in making bombs'. The Sangh never does anything like this. With more than 40 lakh members, hardly anyone has ever been involved in making bombs. Anyone remotely associated with training camps of RSS will know what is taught in it- and 'Making bombs' is a ridiculous allegation. (For argument's sake, if RSS does train 40 lakh members in making bombs, why his UPA Government cannot ban RSS or as a minimum expose this, or arrest those giving such a training? :D He is thus accepting that his UPA Government is incapable of doing anything to stop bomb-making training to 40 lakh people!) Far from it, the RSS has been the biggest victim of terrorism, losing hundreds of cadres brutally murdered by Islamic, Christian and Communist radicals, not to mention the Congress in 1948, but it has silently suffered all killing without ever retaliating. Calling an overtolerant organisation like RSS which silently suffered without even indulging in self-defence a ‘terrorist organisation making bombs’ is blatantly false, inflammatory and defamatory.

     In reality, the Congress has had many of its members convicted for terrorism.

13- He alleged now in August 2013 that the riots in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Kishtwar were caused by BJP. Evidence of this? None. What the reports of the biased media itself say is that all these riots were started by fanatics from the minority community. As usual, Digvijay is defending the guilty starters of the riots and blaming innocents who he wants to paint guilty.
  
   What needs to be remembered is that on 27 Feb 2002 occurred Godhra. On 28 Feb the situation was out of control and the Gujarat Government requested neighboring states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan to send additional police force. All states were ruled by the Congress and all refused to send, except Maharashtra which sent a paltry company of 260 jawans. Digvijay Singh, who was then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh refused to send a single policeman. Obviously he wanted riots to occur in BJP-ruled Gujarat and not curb them soon so that he could target the BJP. Narendra Modi himself raised this issue and cornered Digvijay Singh on his face on this. 

 The riots in Gujarat were caused by the roasting of Hindus in Godhra. The Indian Express of 5 March  2002 reported on Godhra that Congress leaders are accused in Godhra:
  • Mehmud Hussain Kalota, convener of the Congress district minority cell and president of the Godhra municipality
  • Salim Abdul Ghaffar Sheikh, president of the Panchmahal Youth Congress
  • Abdul Rehman Abdul Majid Ghantia, a known Congress worker
  • Farroukh Bhana, secretary of the district Congress committee
  • Haji Bilal, a known Congress worker”
When 31 people were convicted for Godhra roasting, 2 Congress men were given LIFE IMPRISONMENT and 1 was given DEATH penalty out of the above 5. Abdul Rehman Abdul Majid Ghantia  and Farroukh Bhana have got life imprisonment and Haji Bilal has got death penalty - 3 out of these 5. http://www.rediff.com/news/report/the-men-convicted-for-godhra-carnage/20110222.htm No 2 , 3 and 15 in this list are the convicted Congress people.Since Digvijay's party men instigated the violence in Gujarat by roasting Hindus in Godhra, he is making this allegation on the BJP. He of course, has no answer on his party men convicted for Godhra killings.
 
14- BJP leaders Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley released the xerox copies of the degrees of the PM Narendra Modi of BA and MA to the press in May 2016. Even after this, desperate people of AAP and Congress tried to spread lies to somehow show this degree as 'fake'. Digvijay Singh tweeted lies from his official handle.

    https://twitter.com/digvijaya_28/status/729473914343198720  

   He wrote: " मोदी की MA डिग्री को लेकर एक और खुलासा ! जिस दिन मोदीजी को डिग्री मिलीथी उस दिन संडे था !! चारो तरफ सन्नाटा ! 13-March 1983 !! Anshu Mishra"

   This is an outrageous lie. The degree certificate clearly states the day as 30th (Thirtieth) March 1983 which was a Wednesday and not a Sunday. Thirtieth (30th) March was tried to be projected by Digvijay as Thirteenth (13th) March to lie that it was issued on a Sunday and by implication was fake! This is a serious criminal offense and blatant defamation of the nation's Prime Minister.

    The Degree Certificate clearly says that it was conferred on THIRTIETH (30th) DAY OF MARCH 1983, A WEDNESDAY. Digvijay Singh claimed it as THIRTEENTH (13th) March 1983.

   No apology from Digvijay and no delete of tweet!

15- In May 2016, Digvijay also tweeted a link to a fake / incomplete video of Narendra Modi. In the incomplete / distorted video, Narendra Modi was shown as saying that he is High School educated (As if he did not do BA and MA). But in the full original video, the next sentence he said was that after his schooling he did BA and MA.

 But Digvijay Singh tweeted a link to the incomplete / edited video and thus claimed that the PM is not a graduate or post-graduate. This resulted in a police complaint filed against him by Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena chief Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga.

    No apology was given by Digvijay, but he quietly deleted his tweet!

16- In the Vyapam Scam, the SIT appointed by and monitored by the courts stated to the High Court that documents submitted by Digvijay Singh as 'evidence' were forged, i.e. Digvijay submitted false evidence. The High Court accepted the SIT report.

     http://www.freepressjournal.in/hc-accepts-sit-report-declaring-digvijay-evidence-forged/572404

17- Digvijay also tweeted a fake image to defame BJP and Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel and PM Narendra Modi in October 2015. He was exposed.

    http://satyavijayi.com/should-a-defamation-case-filed-against-digvijaya-singh-for-trying-to-instigate-communal-violence/ 

  
   Digvijaya Singh has recently tweeted about Beef found in car of a BJP leader and was about to throw that near temple to create communal disturbance in Gujarat. Below is the details and his tweet.
Within minutes, we discovered that its doctored and really old image posted by Congress Leader to defame and create communal tension. Below are the points proving the information to be fake.
  • The same image was posted by website and FB page called Truth of Gujarat on 30th March 2014 to create chaos before LS elections 2014. Below is the pic. Please compare the images to know the truth. Here is the complete post
tog


  
  • The old image is posted by a Amar Padda, who claims himself CEO of Tehelka Group and lives in Toronto Canada as per his FB Profile. Here is the POST done on Oct 24th. Visit his FB profile to find his TL filled with fake news and photo shopped images against Indian Govt.
  • The car is Maruti Suzuki Esteem is the car in Pic, which looks in pretty new condition. Ones, who use and know about cars in India can guess, how old this pic might be of.
  • We found another pic in his reply, which has pic of same car with congress symbol So Person like Digvijaya should have verified and confirmed it before posting in twitter since it can create communal riots.


18- Also, this man's idiocy must be exposed immediately. In 2003 when he was staring at defeat in Madhya Pradesh in the December Assembly elections, he was over-confident of victory and declared that if he lost, he would not contest elections for the next 10 years and work for his party.
Sadly for him, he lost and lost badly. The problem for him is that now he cannot hold a Ministrial position in the UPA Government (such as Home Minister, Finance Minister etc which he could have easily got otherwise) from 2003 December to December 2013, which is all but the 10 years of UPA I and II. He declared even later - in 2009 and 2010 that he would not contest the 2009 Lok Sabha polls because of his promise of 2003 nor hold a post in the Government. Sadly, the last part of his promise has gone unnoticed. 

See the last sentence of this link. "Singh has already announced his decision not to hold ANY POST IN THE PARTY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS." Despite this, he has been the Congress General Secretary for the past many years. He has kept his promise of not contesting elections and not holding Government posts, but has violated it by holding a party post, that too a powerful post of General Secretary.

See 2nd paragraph last line of this link. "He WOULD NOT HOLD ANY POST nor would he contest any election in the next 10 years". 

So, after December 2013 he must be in the reckoning for a plump post, as he was out of favour with Madam Sonia Gandhi for playing the soft Hindutva card in 2003- and also because of the saying, "Out of sight, out of mind". He must stay in the limelight creating controversy. His idiotic promise of 2003 has done him tremendous harm. He has called a respectable saint like Baba Ramdev as a 'Thug'. (What else to expect from a leader of a party which called Atal Bihari Vajpayee a 'traitor' in September 1999, Advani a 'Pakistani', Anna Hazare as 'corrupt from tip to toe' and other things, a few of which can be seen here) In reality, it is not Yoga Gurus like Baba Ramdev or people like Anna Hazare who are thugs or dishonest, but Digvijay Singh himself who has violated his word of not holding any PARTY POST by holding the General Secretary post. 

    Unfortunately, public memory is very short. It needs to be remembered that as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, this man had done absolutely nothing in his 10 years from 1993 to 2003 and roads were poor, there was terrible power crisis etc. After BJP winning the Gujarat December 2002 elections on the Hindutva plank, this man tried his best to play the soft Hindutva card in 2003 to avert a certain defeat. That he failed miserably in it and his party got a mere 38 seats out of 230 with BJP winning 173 is a different matter altogether. Some of Digvijay's statements of 2003 are being re produced here. 

He said in January 2003 that the Congress is not against Ram temple in Ayodhya.
      
   After this, on Aaj Tak's Seedhi Baat Prabhu Chawla grilled him on this and he said that Ram temple should be built on the undisputed site. 

     Digviajy Singh also was reported to have written to the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003 to bring a nationwide ban on cow slaughter. When he was grilled on this, he denied this and claimed that one organisation which was in favour of cow slaughter ban wrote to him, the memorandum he simply forwarded to the Prime Minister.
 
   After this, in 2003 Digvijay Singh visited many temples, sought blessings of many saints, did many Havanas and Yagnyas, in all tried in vain to play the soft Hindutva card. All these facts must now be immediately brought back in public memory. Like Digvijay had got the tag of "Soft-Hindutva" for himself, that tag must immediately come back to him. He should be asked to explain his statement on Cow slaughter ban where he favoured a nationwide ban on cow slaughter (but his party's members tore the proposed bill in August 2003 when it was proposed in Parliament, along with then NDA allies like DMK). He must also be immediately cornered on this 6 January 2003 statement saying CONGRESS (not he) favors Ram temple in Ayodhya, and his later interview to Aaj Tak in which he said Ram temple should be built on the undisputed site.

   All these facts raised in public will hugely embarrass the former Chief Minister, who is not a pseudo-secularist but a rank opportunist, playing the soft Hindutva card when it suits him, and the pro-Islamic policy at other times. His opportunism and changing colours must be immediately exposed. And on Hindu terrorism, his own party's record must be immediately brought out in public, (like Mohammad Surti who was convicted for 1993 Surat bomb blasts and given 20 years jail on 4 October 2008) and he and Rahul Gandhi must be dared to open their mouths on the Congress' terror links as well as alliance with Muslim League, Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagham (TNMMK)- a party involved in the Coimbatore blasts and the MIM in Andhra Pradesh which vowed to behead Taslima Nasreen.  

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