MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan compares Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh to Shyam and Chainu of Mere Apne

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday compared Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh to the quarrelling Shyam and Chainu of the Gulzar-directed 1971 classic Mere Apne rather than doting friends Jai and Viru of Sholay that the grand old party likens them to.

Satna, Nov 3: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday compared Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh to the quarrelling Shyam and Chainu of the Gulzar-directed 1971 classic Mere Apne rather than doting friends Jai and Viru of Sholay that the grand old party likens them to.

MP Assembly polls on Nov 17, results on Dec 3

Assembly polls will be held in MP on November 17, while results will be declared on December 3. Without naming Nath and Singh, the CM said. Congress leaders call them Jai and Viru played by Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra. But they are actually Shyam and Chainu played by Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha who are fighting all the time to hold sway in their territories.

Cong leaders care only for their families: Chouhan

Addressing a press conference, Chouhan said the opposition bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance INDIA, comprising the Congress and more than 25 parties opposed to the BJP, had disintegrated even before taking shape. He said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose Janata Dal United is part of INDIA, had recently claimed the Congress did not care for other political parties. The Congress only cares about one family, Chouhan added.

Sonia Gandhi is only interested in establishing the careers of her children Rahul and Priyanka, while in MP Kamal Nath is doing the same with his son and Chhindwara Lok Sabha MP Nakul, the CM alleged. His Nath son is announcing poll tickets for Chhindwara district before the Congress. Digvijaya Singh is establishing his son MLA Jaivardhan Singh. The INDIA bloc has fallen apart and so has the Congress, Chouhan claimed.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Cong

Bihar CM Kumar had on Thursday said there was not much progress on the INDIA front as the Congress was busy with Assembly polls in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telengana and Mizoram. In the INDIA coalition, all of us had agreed to assign the Congress the leading role. But it appears they will respond and call the next meeting only after they are through with the ongoing elections, Kumar had said.