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'Jogi's son asked me to kill Congress leader'

'Jogi's son asked me to kill Congress leader'

Author: Indo-Asian News Service
Publication: Yahoo News
Date: December 29, 2003
URL: http://in.news.yahoo.com/031229/43/2am8y.html

In a fresh twist to the cash-for-legislators scam involving former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi, a Jagdalpur-based travel operator has alleged he was asked by Jogi's son to kill a senior Congress leader.

Virendra Pathak, who owns Sadashiv Tours and Travels Agency, told reporters in Ambikapur that Jogi's son Amit had asked him to "eliminate" former state minister Mahendra Karma, who was known for his opposition to the former chief minister.

Pathak was earlier in-charge of the Jagdalpur operations of Akash cable TV channel, which is owned by an associate of Amit Jogi.

Referring to Amit Jogi's alleged order to kill Karma, Pathak said: "I flatly refused to stick to the directive and three cases were fabricated against me for not (obeying) his order."

Pathak claimed his vehicles were seized at Surajpur, Korba and Balrampur at the behest of Amit Jogi when his father was still chief minister.

"All sorts of methods were applied to wipe out my business and it all happened because I refused to follow his order," he said.

Claiming he was facing a serious threat to his life, Pathak said he had written to Chief Minister Raman Singh seeking a thorough inquiry into the episode.

Ajit Jogi was suspended by the Congress party for allegedly offering bribes to engineer defections in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after it came to power in state assembly elections December 1.

Karma, nicknamed the "Bastar tiger", was chosen leader of the Congress legislature party after Jogi's suspension.

Pathak admitted he had spied at Karma's residence before the polls to collect information about Vidya Charan Shukla, who had quit the Congress and joined the Nationalist Congress Party just before the assembly elections.

Pathak said he passed on this information to Ajit Jogi.
 


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