LUCKNOW: This Congress leader may be spearheading a campaign to run down Anna's army but hardly has any qualms about enlisting selective support from him. On Thursday, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh sprang a surprise by requesting Anna Hazare to "come down to Uttar Pradesh to launch a Maharashtra-like agitation against the Mayawati government". In the event Hazare actually decides to come, "the Congress would lend its full cooperation and provide Annaji with all the documents to prove graft charges'', Digvijay announced.
Lambasting the BSP government for rampant corruption, Digvijay claimed that those who refuse to help in the money-making bid were facing harassment under `Mayaraj'. The Congress leader listed the suicide by senior IAS officer, Harmindar Raj Singh and murder of two CMOs as cases to prove his point. Digvijay ridiculed Mayawati's attempt to sweep aside the controversy through the voluntary resignation of two ministers in the health department.
There are widescale fiscal irregularities in the Centrally-sponsored schemes, including MGNREGS which need to be probed, he alleged. The Congress, he said, would approach the chief information commissioner in case, under the Right To Information Act, if it fails to get information from the state body. Digvijay had a piece of advise for Vijay Shankar Pandey -- the IAS officer dumped by Mayawati after his alleged connections with Hasan Ali were highlighted by media. "Come clean about Mayawati's monetary affairs and help in exposing her,'' he urged.
Digvijay said that the UPCC would be filing a PIL to demand CBI inquiry into the CMO murder case. The party would also demand probe into the sale of sugar mills and the dubious dealings of the state mining department.
Meanwhile, the leader confirmed that prime minister Manmohan Singh and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will address a rally in Banda on April 30.
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