Bhopal:
Hockey Olympian-turned-politician Aslam Sher Khan, who is the Madhya
Pradesh Congress Media Committee chairman, has expressed
apprehension that Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), ruled Madhya
Pradesh Government may indulge in malpractices to win the civic
elections in the state which are due next month.
Talking to media persons here Aslam
Sher alleged that names of many eligible Muslim voters were being
deleted from the voters' list ahead of the civic polls. He cited the
example of Ward No. 20 in Bhopal from where the names of 1,260
Muslims had been deleted from the voters list as BJP thinks that
they would never vote for it.
He claimed that similar complaints had
also been received from other parts of the state including Indore
and Ujjain.
Aslam urged the BJP Government to
ensure that the polls would be held in a free and fair manner. H
warned the BJP not to do anything that would make Madhya Pradesh go
the Gujarat way.
Meanwhile, Aslam Sher said that
Congress party faced defeat in Madhya Pradesh in last Assembly polls
due to differences among its leaders. Without taking any names, he
said that it was the duty of senior leaders to ensure unity within
the party but they had failed in that.
The Congress leader said that there
may be groupism in the party but once a person was given a ticket
for any elections, everyone in the party should work for him.
He said that it was obvious that the
BJP always took benefit of lack of unity in Congress. He claimed
that the BJP had carved out Chhattisgarh out of Madhya Pradesh as it
felt that it could never win elections in the United Madhya Pradesh
and splitting it would benefit it in the elections.
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