The Former Minister Umang Singhar claimed that the BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia had offered him money to join the Bharatiya Janata Party seven months back when he shifted from Congress party to the BJP.
Umang Singhar claimed that the former Congress leader tried to bribe him with 50 crore rupees along with an offer of a minister’s post in a bid to lure him to the BJP. Singhar claimed this while he was talking to the reporters in Dhar addressing a rally in Badnawar. In his allegation, he had mentioned a certain leader had tried to bribe him. Following his allegation, the BJP state president VD Sharma had dared him to reveal the name of the leader who had the offer. Responding to this, Umang Singhar said,
“When many Congress MLAs went to Bengaluru, Scindiaji told me that I’d no future in the Congress. He said if I switched over to BJP, I would get Rs. 50 crore and a minister’s post too, for which he had already got BJP leadership’s nod. But I politely refused the offer and told Scindiaji that we were walking on different paths and I never believed in politics of opportunism.”
BJP Calls It Baseless Allegation
The BJP, however, has refuted the claims and called it baseless. The BJP leader Pankaj Chaturvedi said,
“If Singhar had evidence of the offer made to him seven months back, why didn’t he come before the press at that time. Why did he wait so long to make it public? After opening a front against Digvijaya Singh last year, Singhar’s position in the Congress took a beating. Just to reposition himself as a loyal Congressman and enhance his stature in the party, he’s making such baseless allegations against respectable Jyotiraditya Scindia.”
Source: India.com
