Post-Ujjain episode, Cong leaves Digvijay to fend for himself

After the Ujjain incident where Digvijay Singh lost his cool with some BJP activists, the Congress, it seems, has decided to leave the senior party leader to fend for himself.
The BJP, on the other hand, slammed the Congress general secretary for his anti-RSS remarks and accused him of "trying to communalise" the fight against terror.
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari today resolutely warded off all questions related to Digvijay’s recent utterances and actions and said that it would be better if the queries were addressed directly to the man in question.
“It would be better if you ask him (Digvijay Singh),” Tewari said, responding to the controversy created by Digvijay Singh, whose utterances are understood to have not gone down well with the top leadership.
“We should not speculate when investigations are taking place. Unnecessary speculation tantamounts to rubbing salt into the wounds of those who have to carry the cross and is also a great disservice to the investigative agencies,” he added.
Tewari said instead of pointing fingers the effort should be to build up the capacity to ensure that in future no such incident takes place. “Security agencies have to be lucky all the time whereas they (terrorists) have to be lucky only once. We have to build up our capacity to obviate the one per cent terror attacks (that slip through the observation of security agencies),” he said
Regarding the Ujjain incident, Tewari had an interesting take. “What happened in Ujjain can be best explained by the honourable general secretary. It could be a result of a provocation or maybe as a former activist of the youth student movement, some reminisces must have come back,” said Tewari.
Digvijay allegedly slapped some activists of the youth wing of the BJP who waved black flags at him during his visit to Ujjain on Sunday. The group was protesting against his recent remark that he did not rule out the involvement of the RSS in the July 13 blasts in Mumbai.
Criticising Digvijay, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad today said: “It is very unfortunate that Digvijay Singh is deliberately trying to communalise the fight against terror for petty political gains.”
“We all know whom the SIT and the NIA are interrogating in the terror attack case,” Prasad said and claimed that such statements from Digvijay Singh were denting India’s image on the international stage. (With PTI inputs)