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Former Congress minister Singhi Ram has dragged his estranged mentor and Union Minister for Steel Virbhadra Singh to the National Commission of Schedules Castes,levelling charges of atrocities and undue harassment to him because he is a Dalit.
In his compliant filed on May 12,Singhi Rams wife Giani Devi,who teaches in a government school,has alleged that though her husband has been a Cabinet minister the Virbhadra Singh government,he has been subjected to harassment and mental torture by the then chief minister.
First he (Virbhadra Singh) tried to get the Rampur Assembly constituency,which Singhi Ram had represented for five times,de-reserved by the Delimitation Commission. But when he failed to do this,he denied ticket to him (Singhi Ram) in the 2007 elections, she alleged. Singhi Ram,who faces a vigilance case involving him and his daughter Upma Kashyap in the fake marksheet scandal of HP Board of School Education,had earlier said the Union minister had framed him in the case.
In the five-page complaint,copies of which were made available to the media here,Giani Devi said IPS officer A P Singh,currently on deputation with Virbhadra Singh as his private secretary,was responsible for registration of the fake marksheet case against her daughter. Singh was SP (Vigilance) when the case was filed. Virbhadra Singh,who was travelling in the interiors of Shimla on Monday,could not be contacted for his reaction. He had,however,earlier denied Singhi Rams allegations on his role in the denial of ticket to him or filing of the FIR.
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