Widow says India's would be president, Pratibha's brother, plotted her husband's murder
Media Release
Jun. 22, 2007

A day ahead of her filing nomination for the Presidential election, UPA-Left candidate Pratibha Patil was on Friday accused by a woman from Maharashtra of "protecting" her brother, who she said had a hand in the murder of her husband two years ago, a charge strongly dismissed by the Congress.

Significantly, Rajani Patil, widow of slain Jalgaon district Congress committee president V G Patil, held a press conference here at the residence of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, which was organised by Sudheendra Kulkarni, close to BJP leaders A B Vajpayee and L K Advani.

At the press conference, Rajani Patil, a professor of Marathi in a Jalgaon college, alleged that supporters of G N Patil, brother of Pratibha Patil, had murdered her husband in 2005 after he had narrowly lost the DCC poll.

She alleged that G N Patil and another Congress leader were the "conspirators in the crime".

She released copies of a memorandum she had sent to President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday in which she accused the former Rajasthan Governor of "trying to influence" the investigation to "protect" her brother. Rajni Patil wanted the CBI to investigate this angle.

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