Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday booked Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh on charges of hatching a "conspiracy to spread religious frenzy" in the state. Singh had put out a tweet in the morning in which he sought to link a mosque in another state to violence in MP's Khargone city during a Ram Navami procession. Singh posted a picture showing some youths hoisting a saffron flag at a mosque while mentioning about Khargone violence. He later deleted the tweet.
Meanwhile, State Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang wrote a letter to Parag Agarwal, CEO of Twitter India, demanding immediate suspension of Digvijay Singh's Twitter account. The complaint letter cited that the tweets made by Digvijay Singh in the last few days are creating communal disintegration and frenzy in the society. "He tweeted a picture from somewhere else, claimed it to be from Madhya Pradesh and falsely linked it to the communal violence in Khargone. They are trying to spoil the atmosphere of the state by questioning their illegal property being demolished by bulldozers now," the complaint letter said.
Singh on Tuesday also raised questions over the Khargone administration in connection with the violence there, while tagging a video of BJP leader Kapil Mishra in which he was seen exhorting Hindus to protect their identity while referring to Hindi film "The Kashmir Files", which is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley. Curfew was clamped in the entire Khargone city on Sunday evening after stone-pelting during a Ram Navami procession earlier that day triggered arson.
"Digvijaya Singhji wants to fuel communal tension by spreading confusion. The picture of hoisting the flag at a mosque is not from Madhya Pradesh. Opinions are being taken from legal experts regarding action in this matter," MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra told reporters. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also took to the micro-blogging site, saying that the photo Digvijaya Singh had tweeted was not from Madhya Pradesh.
"This tweet of Digvijay Singh is a conspiracy to spread religious frenzy in the state and a conspiracy to throw the state in the fire of riots, which will not be tolerated," he said.
Earlier in the day, Singh along with the picture on his Twitter handle said" "Is it appropriate to put up a flag at a religious place while holding swords and sticks? Did the Khargone administration allow a procession carrying weapons? Will bulldozers run over the homes of all those who throw stones, irrespective of religion? Don't forget Shivraj ji, you have taken an oath to run the government in a fair manner."