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Nagpur: May 27: As expected the blame game over gruesome Naxal attack on the convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh’s Darbha Gahti in Sukuma has begun with the Congress and BJP trading charges against each other. The so called human rights-wallahs and left-secular bandwagon has also joined the chorus in denouncing the Chhattisgarh Government headed by Chief Minister Raman Singh. The Union Home Secretary R K Singh has sounded warning by saying that the attack took place due to ‘security lapses’. He also indicated that the NIA will probe the incident to nail those responsible for these ‘security lapses’.

Senior Congress leader and former Minister Mahendra Karma, who had launched the controversial ‘Salwa Judum’ movement to counter the Naxalites, was the main target. But all those who were either killed or injured in this brutal and dastardly attack belonged to anti-Ajit Jogi camp in Chhattisgarh Congress. Was this a mere coincidence? Or was it a ‘political conspiracy’ as claimed by the family members of the slain Chhattisgarh PCC Chief Nandkumar Patel? A thorough and impartial inquiry into this incident would bring the hidden truth behind this apprehension. But as for the present, it appears that the needle of suspicion in this conspiracy, if at all it is one, points to the former chief minister Ajit Jogi. The circumstantial facts, it seems, further strengthen this apprehension.

According to reports Umesh Patel, the son of Nandkumar Patel, has sought CBI probe into the incident suspecting a ‘political conspiracy’ behind this tragedy. Talking to press persons at his native village Nandeli, Umesh Patel said that the fact that Naxals were asking for senior party leaders by calling their names indicated that there was some political conspiracy behind the killing of his father, brother and other senior Congress party leaders including Mahendra Karma and Vidya Charan Shukla.

In Chhattisgarh state politics, Mahendra Karma, Nandkumar Patel, Vidya Charan Shukla et el were looked down by Ajit Jogi, who became the chief minister of the newly formed state with the blessings of Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi against the wishes of the senior party men, as his strong contenders and opponents. Vidya Charan Shukla had taken strong objection to Jogi’s elevation to the top post at the behest of Sonia Gandhi. He had said on record that Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s “obsession” with the Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi, had led to suffocation in the party, at both the Centre and the State.