Kejriwal snubs Digvijay in war of words

Says will send his associate Kumar Vishwas for public debate with Digvijay

The ongoing war of words between Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh and anti corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has got Congress into an embarrassing situation.

It all started with two letters sent by Digvijay Singh to Kejriwal asking him several questions regarding his service tenure in Indian Revenue Service, the source of funds for his NGO and so on.

Kejriwal instead of replying to these queries said that most of the answers were already given by him and the rest was within the powers of the Government to find out. All its investigative agencies have been probing into his affairs for the past two years and hence it was not necessary to answer them separately, he said.

He instead asked Singh to persuade the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi or Congress president Sonia Gandhi to come for a public debate with him and let the public ask any questions it wanted of them, both personal and professional.

Kejriwal said that he had asked many questions of the Prime Minister regarding the coal allocations, 2G scam and the Robert Vadra land acquisitions but none of them were answered. He said that they should first answer these questions or at else come for a public debate.

Singh responded by saying that the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were too big to come for a debate with Kejriwal. He, however, offered to come himself for a public debate with him.

Kejriwal retorted with the snub that he was all for the public debate with Singh but he would send his associate Kumar Vishwas to speak on his behalf.

Singh so far tongue tied has not responded to this one.

Manish Tiwari, spokesperson for the Congress, has reacted saying that any block level leaders of the party were enough to silence Kejriwal, his allegations and insinuations.

Earlier in his letters to Kejriwal, Digvijay Singh had called him someone with a streak of a Hitler in him and someone who was full of himself.