MP Congress, Sidhi Police argue over whose feet did CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan wash

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Congress and the Sidhi SP Dr Ravindra Verma, wherein the former has said that the victim and the person whose feet were washed are different, and the latter has refuted the claim. Madhya Pradesh has been reporting caste based discriminating incidents in the past week. While addressing the social and spatial issue of caste discrimination remains a pipe dream, the incidences have sure been a ploy in partisan politics that have ensued in the poll-bound state.

A video had gone viral of Dashmat Rawat being urinated on by Pravesh Shukla. Following outrage and social emdia backlash, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister compensated Rawat with rs 5 lakh, apologised to him and washed his feet. However, Madhya Pradesh Congress took to microblogging site Twitter to claim that the person who was urinated upon and the person whose feet Madhya Pradesh CM washed were different.

"Such a big conspiracy. Madhya Pradesh will not forgive you," the Madhya Pradesh Congress wrote. Later Sidhi SP Dr Ravindra Verma refuted Madhya Pradesh Congress' claim and termed it as 'misleading.

"In the case of the viral video of Sidhi urination case, there are some misleading claims that the victim was not Dashmat Rawat. Police investigation confirmed that the man was Dashmat Rawat," the SP said. Further  Sidhi district collector Saket Malviya too issued a video and said some videos are doing the rounds that the urination case victim and Dashmat Rawat are not the same.