Tiger didn’t visit Chambal in last five months: Congress’s dig at Jyotiraditya Scindia

BHOPAL: Five-months after the Kamal Nath government was toppled after 22 party MLAs followed Jyotiraditya Scindia to the BJP, state Congress on Monday reacted strongly to the BJP Rajya Sabha MP’s Indore-Ujjain visit. “Jyotiraditya Scindia had claimed that Tiger Abhi Zinda hai (Tiger is still alive). But in the past five months, Tiger did not go to do public service in the Gwalior-Chambal areas.Today, he has come to the Jungle Raj in Indore-Ujjain,” state Congress media cell chief Jitu Patwari took a dig on Monday.
Jitu Patwari also recalled, “After toppling the Congress government, Jyotiraditya Scindia went to the BJP and took membership of the party. He then made two declarations. One, that he is in politics to earn respect and two, that public service is his main goal – a principle which he inherited from his family. If he left the Congress party to earn respect, question is why then is he now wandering door-to-door?”
Jyotiraditya Scindia paid a visit to several BJP leaders in the Indore-Ujjain region including party’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayavargiya and former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
Patwari argued that before the 2018 assembly elections, there were two main faces of the Congress party – former chief minister Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia. “Scindia claimed that he was told to hit the roads so he came on the roads and brought the government on the road too,” Patwari said, speaking to reporters. “That was his ego, his pride and to show his importance and I accept he succeeded in it,” Patwari said.
The Congress said that Jyotiraditya Scindia during the Congress government regime had promised he would agitate on the roads in support of the demands made by guest teachers of government schools. “But till date he has not hit the roads in support of the teachers. Today, 68000 guest contractual teachers have not received their salaries over the past three to four months. There are reports of suicides by 65 of them. But Scindia has not uttered a single word for them,” he argued. Jitu Patwari appealed to Jyotirdaitya Scindia to at least write a letter to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the issue of contractual teachers.
“I want to appeal to him that the guest teachers for who you said would hit the streets, at least you should have written a letter to Shivraj Singh Chouhan about them and told him what to do. But he hasn’t done that so far,” he said.