BJP targets Digvijay Singh for vowing to take revenge against Gadkari

         

 New Delhi, Dec 21 (ANI): Taking potshots at Digvijay Singh over his remark that he would do more research about Nitin Gadkari's businesses, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said the Congress General Secretary must do his homework well before making all these kinds of insinuations in the public domain.

"Digvijay Singh today appeared before a court in a defamation case filed by our national president Nitin Gadkariji. And after getting bail, he has made a public comment that he will do more research about the business of Gadkari. This means that while making the baseless allegations against our national president, he has not done any homework," said BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad.

" And, it is an acknowledgement that his allegation was just without any basis. Though Mr. Digvijay Singh is quite famous for making these kinds of wild allegations, but this time he must do his homework well before making all these kinds if insinuations. The BJP has already condemned it in the past that all the allegations are completely baseless," he added.

Digvijay Singh, who was granted anticipatory bail by a Delhi court in connection with a criminal defamation case filed against him by Gadkari today, said that he would now prove all his charges against Gadkari.

"Now, I can say everything in front of the court the way Gadkari has worked as a businessman and how he has links with various other businessmen, which all companies of his were fake and how he earned profits," he told mediapersons outside the court.

Singh appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar in pursuance to the summons issued against him by the court on November 17 and the judge granted bail to him on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and a surety of the like amount.

Gadkari had filed the criminal defamation case against Singh, who has accused him of having business links with his party MP Ajay Sancheti who allegedly pocketed a huge sum in coal block allocation.

Gadkari, in his statement recorded in the court, had denied having any business ties with Sancheti and had said Singh levelled 'totally false and defamatory' allegations against him to 'give the impression that I have been responsible for allocation of the coal mines' to Sancheti.

Gadkari, in his petition filed through advocate Ajay Digpaul, had sought Singh's prosecution under sections 499 and 500 of the IPC. (ANI)