Madhya Pradesh

The Rewa MP was addressing a gathering of the party leaders and workers in his constituency and advising them on ways to come into prominence as a politician. "Slapping district collector or commissioner will establish one as a political leader at least for the next one or two years," he said.

Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, who has held district administration and the police responsible for communal violence, has posted a photo showing a group of people hoisting saffron flag on a mosque. However, the photograph turned out to be a fake and subsequently, Singh's post from his twitter account was deleted.

In a joint operation by the district administration and the police, several buildings were bulldozed in the Khargone city area where the incidents took place. Nearly half-a-dozen JCB machines (bulldozers) started demolishing the illegal buildings of rioters. The action came soon after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a meeting with DGP Sudhir Kumar Saxena and other top bureaucrats including the chief secretary and the principal secretary of the state home department in Bhopal on Monday.

Arif Masood, who is a prominent Muslim leader of the Congress in the city, said the party was setting a 'wrong precedent' by issuing such a circular. Masood asked why such directives were not issued for the Congress workers to celebrate Ramadan and the festivals of other faiths. He stated that the Congress has always respected all religions equally since its inception and should not follow the BJP's ideology.

A letter in this regard has been issued in the name of MP Congress president Kamal Nath. Interestingly, the Congress party's  instruction  to its workers has come ahead of the assembly poll in Madhya Pradesh that is scheduled to take place next year. The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has mocked Congress’s appeal to its workers and termed it as ‘hypocrisy’.

The Chief Minister was in Rewa on Wednesday to attend a 'Rojgar Divas' programme organised by the district administration, and to inaugurate a Vaatsalya Hospital in the district. While addressing the gathering, Chouhan said, "I have read about the rape incident in Raj Niwas. The District Collector and SP, I am telling you to take strict action against those involved in the matter. When these bulldozers be used?"