MP: Congress hits out at BJP over minister’s remarks on Col Sofiya Qureshi

The Congress common secretary additionally added, “Not firing minister Vijay Shah, who the excessive court docket has ordered an FIR in opposition to, is a silent endorsement of his statements. We are going to relentlessly push the BJP into sacking him, there isn’t any different possibility for them.”

Earlier on Wednesday, the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom took cognisance within the matter and ordered the director common of police (DGP) to register a FIR in opposition to minister Shah by the night.

Following the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom, the minister was booked below Part 196 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and different related prices by late Wednesday night.

Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom justice Atul Sreedharan in his order has warned that failure to conform would result in proceedings below the Contempt of Courts Act.

In the meantime, state BJP president V.D. Sharma, who had summoned Minister Vijay Shah held a closed-door assembly at social gathering headquarters late on Tuesday, speaking to media individuals on Wednesday mentioned, “BJP’s management has taken this problem on critical observe and he (Vijay Shah) has been conveyed with the social gathering’s message.”

Three former Madhya Pradesh chief ministers — Digvijaya Singh, Kamal Nath and Uma Bharti, who’s from the BJP have condemned Vijay Shah’s remarks on Colonel Sofia Qureshi and so they have demanded that the minister ought to be sacked.

“Vijay Shah ought to be dismissed from the submit of minister and FIR ought to be registered in opposition to him instantly as a result of he has introduced disgrace to the complete nation,” Uma Bharti posted a message on his social media account X.