“BJP has nature of diverting attention from national issues”: Congress MP on FIR against Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], August 14 (ANI): Rajya Sabha Congress MP from Madhya Pradesh, Rajmani Patel has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over FIR against Congress leaders, including Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and has said that they have the nature of diverting public’s attention from national issues.
Speaking to ANI, Patel said, “The leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party are in frustration at this time. Public opinion is against them. The dreams shown by them (BJP) for the farmers, for the unemployed people, for good governance have been shattered. Now the people of the country and the state have started to understand the reality of those dreams very well. Now the ground is slipping from under their (BJP) feet.”
“The BJP has the nature of diverting the public’s attention from national issues. Now they (BJP) either file FIR against everyone, send some to jail or send ED and CBI against them. They are misusing all these institutions,” he said.
The BJP wants that somehow the atmosphere may get in their favour. They (BJP) are doing this (FIR) so that they (Congress) get in trouble, stuck in case-lawsuit and can not do the programme, the Congress MP added.
Notably, Priyanka Gandhi shared a snap of a newspaper cutting on official X (formally known as Twitter) on Friday evening and wrote, “In Madhya Pradesh, the contractors' union has written a letter to the Chief Justice of the High Court, complaining that the payment is received only after paying 50 per cent commission in the state. The corrupt BJP government in Karnataka used to collect 40 per cent commission. In Madhya Pradesh, BJP has gone ahead by breaking its own record of corruption.”
“The people of Karnataka ousted the government of 40 per cent commission, now the people of Madhya Pradesh will remove the BJP government of 50 per cent commission from the power,” She further wrote.
After this, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Madhya Pradesh have filed complaints against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, MP Congress chief Kamal Nath and former Union Minister Arun Yadav's Twitter handles over a post accusing the state government in Madhya Pradesh of 'corruption', police said.
According to a statement released on the official X handle of Indore Commissioner of Police (CP) late on Saturday night, local BJP's legal cell convenor Nimesh Pathak lodged a complaint with claims of a fake letter, bearing the name of a person named, Gyanendra Awasthi, was being circulated on social media with allegations that the contractors in the state were being asked to pay 50 per cent commission.
Based on the complaint, a case under sections 420, and 469 of IPC has been registered at Indore's Sanyogitaganj police station, the police said. (ANI)