A day after stones were pelted on the BJP’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Madhya Pradesh, Home Minister Narottam Mishra said the seven persons arrested so far were linked to the Congress even as he accused senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh of instigating people to carry out the attack.
The Congress, on the other hand, linked the attack to a cheetah relocation project which would affect people in the Neemuch-Mandsaur area while labelling it as an outcome of people’s distrust over the government.
“As far as the attack on the yatra is concerned, if you look behind the scene, you will understand. Kamal Nath ji had earlier said that stone pelting like Manipur was possible, had been trying to instigate for the past one month. Digvijaya [Singh] ji was giving example of Nuh in Haryana. He was also trying to instigate. The FIR that has been registered against one Khema Gurjar and seven others who have been arrested are linked to the Congress,” Mr. Mishra said.
