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Another BJP charge against Jogi

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI NOV. 25. The Bharatiya Janata Party today levelled another charge against the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi, saying that in an affidavit filed in 1996 he had "misrepresented" facts about his family's joint income.

The party spokesperson, Prakash Javadekar, said today that two separate affidavits filed by Mr. Jogi in November 1996 said that he was domiciled in Delhi and that the combined income of his family was "not more than Rs. 50,000" in 1993-94 and 1994-95. However, the BJP claimed that it had obtained an income certificate of his wife, Renu Jogi, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, where she was then working, showing that her income in 1993-94 was Rs. 85,946 and in the following year it was Rs. 95,170.

Armed with this "document", Nand Kumar Sai, the BJP's candidate against Mr. Jogi in the Mirwahi Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh, has filed a case with the Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala Courts here, charging Mr. Jogi with cheating. The case, Mr. Javadekar said, would come up for hearing on November 28.

Mr. Javadekar alleged that Mr. Jogi had filed the affidavits when applying for a petrol pump. However, after the case attracted attention, he surrendered his claim to the allotment.

"This is yet another case against Mr. Jogi," Mr. Javadekar said while recounting the various other charges levelled by the BJP against him which are also being taken up in various courts. The BJP has repeatedly questioned Mr. Jogi's claim of being a tribal, it has charged that the Intelligence Bureau document sent by Mr. Jogi to the Prime Minister was forged, and that his son, Amit Jogi, had a hand in the "tapes conspiracy" against its State leader, Dilip Singh Judev.

Amit Jogi's denial

PTI reports from Raipur:

Amit Jogi tonight denied any role in the tape controversy. ``I cannot speak for the establishment but personally I had no role in this'', he told reporters.

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