Bhopal, Oct 3 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday that senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the party’s state President Kamal Nath and Rajya Sabha Member Digvijaya Singh should first put their own house in order.
Mr Chouhan was reacting to Congress leaders’ statements regarding erstwhile minister Sulochana Rawat resigning from that party and joining the BJP.

“I know the Rawat family for years and nobody points fingers at them in their area. Now that she has joined the BJP, why is the Congress having a problem? Let Mr Nath first reveal who were the touts at Vallabh Bhavan (the State Secretariat). He is destroying the Congress in this state and Mr Gandhi is doing so at the Centre. In Punjab, a well-established government was put in crisis and the situation in Chhattisgarh is no secret. The Congress leaders must first talk to the G-23,” the Chief Minister told the press at the BJP state office here when Alirajpur District’s tribal leader Mrs Rawat and her son Vishal formally accepted party membership.

BJP state President VD Sharma also slammed the Congress whose leaders had alleged that people who change party loyalties are “buyable”.

Regarding former chief minister Nath’s remark – made on Saturday in the context of his own health – that he is challenging Mr Chouhan to a race, the Chief Minister said, “I will certainly not run. I am not his enemy.”

“The Congress never developed tribal-dominated Alirajpur District and whatever development work took place was accomplished during BJP rule. That is the reason why the poor and the tribal folk are with the BJP,” Mr Chouhan said.
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