Bhopal: Congress leader and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh claimed that he had information that the BJP was trying to create Nuh-like riots in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the elections.

It's important to recall that last month, a wave of communal clashes erupted in Nuh, Haryana, leading to the deaths of at least six individuals, including two home guards and a mosque cleric. These clashes unfolded subsequent to a Bajrang Dal procession turning violent. Notably, Bittu Bajrangi, a prominent member of Bajrang Dal from Faridabad, was the only high-profile arrest made in connection with the incident, allegedly present during the communal clashes.

"Whenever the BJP starts losing, it uses its only weapon Hindu-Muslim, Hindustan-Pakistan. I appeal to all my MP brothers and sisters to maintain peace in the state. Religion is the path of faith, not politics," Digvijaya Singh tweeted explaining his remark made at `Vidhik Vimarsh 2023', a gathering of lawyers by the party's legal cell in Bhopal.

At the lawyers gathering which was organised by the state Congress's Legal and Human Rights Cell, Singh said, “The way these people caused riots in Nuh in Haryana, they have plans to trigger such riots (in MP) because the BJP knows there is a lot of resentment against it."

“During the last 2018 MP Assembly election, Rajya Sabha member Vivek Tankha made thousands of advocates stand by the Congress. We formed the government then. Again, a large number of lawyers have assembled here. Hopefully, we are going to form the next government in MP," he said.

Kamal Nath, the Chief of MP Congress, also addressed the audience during the event. He lamented the widespread corruption afflicting the state across all tiers of governance, extending from local panchayats to the state headquarters at the Mantralaya.

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