My name in BPL list is a conspiracy: Digvijaya Singh

PANAJI: All India Congress Committee general secretary and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh on Saturday claimed he and his family were included in the list of Below Poverty Line (BPL) people by the central and state (MP) governments.

“GOMP (Government of Madhya Pradesh) and GOI (Government of India) includes my name, my brother’s name, my son’s name in BPL! We all are income tax payees,” Singh tweeted on Saturday morning before heading for Goa to attend the coordination committee meeting of the local Congress unit.

The 69-year-old tweeted: “We have neither applied nor taken any benefit under BPL. This is conspiracy against me and my family.”

“Those responsible should apologise and should be punished,” he further tweeted. DIGVIJAYA SINGH ACCUSES GOVT OF WITCH HUNTING

The Congress leader also alleged on Saturday that the money laundering charges in the National Herald case against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda amounted to “witch hunting” by the Centre.

“If this is money laundering, then every state government has to be prosecuted. (This is) just witch hunting to harass Bhupinder Hooda,” Singh tweeted from Goa, where he is chairing the coordination committee meeting. The meet will discuss a crucial issue of alliance with like-minded parties for the upcoming Goa assembly polls.

The central probe agency has registered a criminal case against Hooda under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act after taking cognisance of a Haryana State Vigilance Bureau FIR of May this year.

We have neither applied nor taken any benefit under BPL. This is a conspiracy against me and my family... Those responsible should apologize and should be punished DIGVIJAYA SINGH, Congress leader