There are rumblings of a conflict in Chhattisgarh, where the Congress is reportedly dealing with internal strife in its Punjab and Rajasthan units. On Sunday, Brihaspat Singh, a party MLA, claimed that an attack on his convoy the day before was carried out at the request of state health minister TS Singh Deo. “The accused were asking for me from my security personnel while allegedly attacking my convoy’s follow vehicle,” Singh was quoted as saying. “It means the plan was to attack me,” says the narrator.
One of the people who attacked his convoy in Ambikapur town on Saturday evening, according to Brihaspat Singh, a Congress MLA from the Ramanujanj constituency, was a distant relative of Chhattisgarh health minister.
According to Singh, the health minister, who was once a leading contender for the post of chief minister in Chhattisgarh, may not have taken the MLA’s praise for CM Bhupesh Baghel’s work seriously, which is why he was attacked. “I recently stated during a press conference that there is no rotational chief minister post arrangement in the state and that chief minister Bhupesh Bahel has been doing an excellent job,” the Congress MLA told reporters. “If he keeps doing the same job, he’ll be in charge for the next 20-25 years.”
“It is very unfortunate that family members of the state’s health minister attacked (my convoy) on his orders,” Brihaspat Singh said in a statement. The Congress MLA claimed that he would have been “attacked with guns” if he had been in “that car” (his follow vehicle).
In response to the allegations, Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singh Deo simply stated that the people in his area and throughout the state are well aware of his public image. “In Surguja and other parts of the state, people know more about me than I know about myself,” said the minister, who represents the Surguja seat. “I don’t think there’s anything else to say. My image is entirely made up of me.
