A match unmade by politics: For a power couple separated by parties, closing personal divide seems a bridge too far

Munjare was successful the Congress but moved to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) earlier the Lok Sabha polls this twelvemonth aft the enactment did not springiness him a ticket. He contested from Balaghat connected a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) but lost. But his woman and Balaghat MLA Anubha Munjare’s determination to stay successful the Congress and run for his rival did not spell down good with Munjare and helium moved retired of their location earlier the elections.

Last Wednesday, connected Anubha’s birthday, a poster became the latest thorn betwixt the couple. The poster carried a decade-old representation of Anubha, Munjare, and their lad with Digvijaya Singh. Munjare has alleged this was done to people governmental points.

“Without my permission, Anubha enactment my pictures connected the poster. This is irresponsible. She is insulting me. She should enactment up posters of her leaders. I person thing to bash with her day oregon her politics,” said the erstwhile MP.

Asked what was truthful violative astir the poster, Munjare said, “I americium successful a antithetic enactment and she is successful another. How is my representation being used? My sanction should not beryllium successful immoderate of her programmes. I bash not person immoderate nexus with her party. This is objectionable. I americium not filing an FIR. I americium leaving her this clip but she should not repetition specified an enactment … Politics is based connected our principles. Being household doesn’t mean that she tin usage my sanction to summation votes and summation her elector base. Why are her leaders not stopping her (from utilizing his photos)?”

While Anubha, 58, refused to remark connected her husband’s allegations, a person adjacent to her said, “Anubha ji respects her hubby and thinks of him arsenic her guru. There were aggregate posters successful the metropolis and this 1 poster that managed to find its mode connected a rod was removed.”

A Congress person said, “The mates person been warring for a agelong clip and person been separated since the Lok Sabha elections. This clip Kankar Munjare ji got aggravated implicit the poster besides due to the fact that of Digvijaya Singh’s image. He has immoderate atrocious humor with the erstwhile CM and got angry.”

In April, erstwhile differences with her hubby archetypal emerged successful public, Anubha said, “We person been joined for 33 years and person lived happily on with our son. Some families unrecorded unneurotic contempt members being portion of antithetic governmental ideologies. Look astatine the Scindias of Gwalior.”

Anubha is not a governmental novice, having served arsenic a corporator successful the Balaghat municipal assembly and having been elected arsenic the civic body’s president successful 1999. She retained her spot successful 2002 and 2007. Her emergence successful the Congress was catapulted by her triumph implicit BJP heavyweight Gaurishankar Bisen successful past year’s Assembly elections. She had mislaid to Bisen successful 2013 and 2018, contesting connected a Samajwadi Party (SP) summons some times.

A erstwhile Balaghat MP said, “He is simply a person of the past and she is the future. He could not tummy that and asked her to take him implicit her party. As she refused to permission her home, helium decided to determination out,” helium said.