New Delhi: Under fire for his son's alleged misrepresentation of facts, former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi has said that the sympathy factor post the Naxal massacre of the Congress leadership has completely dissipated because of the blame game within the party.
"We lost our front rank leaders including our former PCC chief Vidyacharan Shukla and many others. But though it was a great tragedy, I know in Indian environment, such an incident should have generated such a great sympathy wave that there would have been no need for Congress to do anything else," Jogi said.
"We would have won sitting in our homes without doing any campaigning, if only this issue was let to develop the way it was naturally happening. But I feel sorry to say that more because of our own mistakes, within the party there were people who started blaming one another, mainly me and my followers. And the whole sympathy wave got deflected and it has now almost vanished. So something that the Congress could have encashed upon, we did not," he added.
Documents with CNN-IBN show that Ajit Jogi's son Amit Jogi had misrepresented facts about himself on multiple occasions. With elections around the corner, the Bharatiya Janata Party has lapped on to the issue. With an embarrassed Congress promising a thorough investigation and the BJP not willing to let go of it, the issue is bound to remain in the electoral space in days to come.
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