Jammu, April 10: Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh’s son Ajatshatru Singh Wednesday triggered a controversy, accusing the party and the National Conference of being behind the banishment of his grandfather Maharaja Hari Singh, the last ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, from there.
A BJP MLC, Ajatshatru Singh made the allegation while campaigning for his party’s candidate and Union minister Jitendra Singh, pitted against his (Ajatshtru’s) elder brother Vikramaditya Singh on a Congress ticket from Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat.
The younger Dogra dynasty scion hurled the charge, seeking to foil his father and elder brother’s attempt to seek votes in the name of his grandfather, who, he said was forced to live in exile in erstwhile Bombay for 14 years till his death there.
“Irrespective of what they say about Maharaja Hari Singh, the Congress and the National Conference conspired to banish the Maharaja from Jammu and Kashmir and forced him to live in exile in Bombay for fourteen years till his death there,” he alleged, while addressing a rally in Udhampur.
