BJP president Nitin Gadkari visited a Delhi court today to formally sue Digvijaya Singh for defamation. Mr Singh, who is a senior Congress leader, had alleged in a series of interviews last month that Ajay Sancheti, a Rajya Sabha MP and an entrepreneur from Nagpur, is Mr Gadkari's business partner. In a legal notice sent to Mr Singh a few weeks ago, the BJP chief said the remarks against him were "completely concocted, defamatory, scandalous and un-parliamentary." The government and the BJP have been trading charges over a coal policy that allegedly helped private players get windfall benefits of upto Rs. 1.86 lakh crores, according to the national auditor or CAG.

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