Jyotiraditya Scindia hit back at Madhya Pradesh Congress MPs for levelling charges against him which he claimed were baseless and sought to shut down the criticism against him with “Tiger Abhi Zinda Hai”.
Scindia had reportedly attended a cabinet meeting of Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal when he addressed BJP workers. In his statement, he had said, “You know Congress leaders from outside but I have known them from inside. The Congress government was such that someone was made to occupy the chair but the remote was with someone else. Corruption was rampant. Our 22 legislators made a sacrifice to stop corruption.”
Coming out in response to these remarks by Scindia, a Congress spokesperson called this just another punchline to motivate BJP workers, claiming that and claimed that it was eventually going to lose all their assembly seats in the upcoming polls and that Congress will form the government again. They also claimed that he was merely copying Shivraj Chouhan’s line, and hit back on Twitter, stating that “traitors have no religion. Defeat of the irreligious and sinners is the basic religion of democracy.’’
It is to be noted that, the results of the Assembly by-elections for 24 seats in Madhya Pradesh, the date for which has still not been announced, will be a watershed moment for BJP’s latest entrant Jyotiraditya Scindia. Out of these 24 seats, the BJP needs to win at least 9 seats to reach the majority of 116 members in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly.