Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel should clarify who was trying to destabilize his government, a senior BJP MLA said on Thursday, a day after Baghel said those talking about the rotation of CM's post were trying to bring political instability to the state.
Baghel earlier this week went to New Delhi where he met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other senior party leaders over his power tussle with T S Singh Deo in the state.
Ajay Chandrakar, the BJP legislator from Kurud, in a tweet on Thursday said, “Honourable Chief Minister (Chhattisgarh Congress), the post of ''Chief Minister'' is not of an individual but it is an institution. Who is trying to destabilize the government of the three-fourth majority? ''Delhi Darbar'' or someone else..? You should clarify.”
“Your (CM's) statement will affect the development of Chhattisgarh,” the MLA said in the tweet posted in Hindi, in which Baghel and AICC in charge for the state P L Punia were tagged.
Another senior BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Dharamlal Kaushik said it seemed that fighting within the ruling Congress for the CM's chair was not over yet.
“The way the CM said that discussions were held about development (during meetings with senior leaders in Delhi), it seems the fight for the chair is not over yet. It is just the beginning, this fight is going to belong,” he said.
Kaushik said Baghel, who calls himself a farmer's son, should tell why "injustice" was being meted out to farmers under his leadership. "Farmers have allegedly committed suicide. He cannot understand the pain of farmers as he focused on the chair for two-and-a-half years," the BJP leader claimed.