Bhopal: Continuing his tirade against the Sangh Parivar, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh on March 2 charged it with following a "dangerous agenda that may divide the country and the society or both".

"There are at least 12 crore Muslims in the country and how can anybody even think of persecuting them in any way," Singh told reporters in Bhopal.

"Persecution of Muslims only strengthens the argument of Pakistan that has been telling Indian Muslims that they will never get justice at the hands of Hindus," he said.

"As far as I am concerned, I am involved in a fight to the finish with the fundamentalists," he said adding, "it would not worry me even one bit if I lose my Chief Ministership while fighting them."

Singh said Chief Ministership is not so important for him and pointed out that if his post was to go tomorrow, it can go even today but he will never stop opposing the fundamentalists irrespective of whether they are Hindus or Muslims.

Singh said there is nothing wrong in associating the Congress with religion as even during the freedom struggle, leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak had made no secret of the fact that they were ardent Hindus.

"In fact, in my view Gandhiji happens to be the greatest religious leader we have seen so far in our country," he said.

PTI