MP bypoll: Congress candidate accuses BJP rival of insulting her

Himadri Singh, has written to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan complaining about the song that Gyan Singh had sung.

The Congress candidate contesting Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol Lok Sabha by-election has accused her BJP rival of insulting her by singing an allegedly sexist song to describe her.

Himadri Singh, 29, has written to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan complaining about the song — ‘dil ko dekho, chehra na dekho, chehrene lakhon ko luta, dil saccha aur chehra jhutha’ — that 63-year-old Gyan Singh, a state minister, had sung. “Whoever heard him sing that song from stage and understood its meaning got angry. How could they tolerate such indecency when they treat me as their sister or daughter?’’ she asked in a letter that addresses the CM as “uncle’’ and herself as his “daughter’’.

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Himadri’s parents — former Union Minister Dalbir Singh and former Congress parliamentarian Rajesh Nandini Singh — have represented Shahdol in Lok Sabha. Her father died several years ago and her mother in May this year.

BJP lawmaker Dalpat Singh Paraste’s death has warranted the bypoll slated for November 19. Himadri claimed that the BJP offered her a ticket a day after Chouhan called her his daughter when he visited Shahdol to attend Paraste’s funeral.

“You only file the nomination; we will take care of the rest. I was stunned by the sudden offer,’’ she said. Himadri added that since then several BJP leaders contacted her but she rejected the offer as she could never think of quitting the party that her parents represented in Parliament and Assembly. “Can your party men insult me publicly for refusing the offer you and your colleagues made?”

Chouhan and the BJP refused to comment. “The CM meets several persons. There is no evidence that such an offer was made,’’ a BJP spokesperson said.

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An aide to Gyan Singh insisted that the minister had not named anyone when he sang the song.

Gyan Singh was busy preparing for a rally Chouhan addressed in Shahdol on Tuesday.

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