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Ahead of the assembly election in Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has accused Congress Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh of spreading lies through a doctored video.
"Congress has the support of lies. But this time false and fake support will not help. That's why Congress has to face public anger," Chouhan said on X (formerly Twitter), sharing screenshots of a post by Singh related to a video showing an "opinion poll" claiming it to be from a news channel.
The chief minister also posted screenshots of the tweets of the news channel's officials, terming the "survey" shared by Singh and other Congress leaders fake and doctored.
The video shared by Digvijaya Singh claims to be revealing the findings of an opinion poll, in which Congress is apparently poised to get an overwhelming majority in BJP-governed Madhya Pradesh.
The assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are due in November.
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Slamming the Congress leader, Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra said, "Digvijaya Singh is showing the distorted shape of politics by using social media. They ran a fake poll survey attributing it to ABP while the news channel's managing editor termed it fake. This is not the first time he has done it."
According to Mishra, Digvijaya Singh had earlier said that there could be Nuh-like violence in Madhya Pradesh and had shared a picture of a "saffron flag on a mosque," claiming it to be from Khargone. Nuh in Haryana was recently hit by communal violence.
BJP state chief VD Sharma also hit out at Singh and said that such kind of acts show the frustration of Congress leaders.
On the other hand, Madhya Pradesh Congress media department chairman KK Mishra said, "Instead of blaming Congress leaders, they should file a case against such persons who have been circulating the clip for the past two days," he said.
Earlier in August, the Madhya Pradesh police registered a case against Digvijaya Singh after a tweet by his official X account claimed that some alleged "anti-social elements of Bajrang Dal" ransacked the Jain temple complex at Kundalpur in Damoh district and kept a "Shiv Pindi" there.
