While planning to launch his party, Ajit Jogi tells ET he has ‘highest regard for Sonia Gandhi .’Ever since I returned to Raipur from Delhi about a week ago, thousands of people who have met me have told me that the Congress leadership has proven it was incapable of fighting the corrupt Raman Singh government. They said Chhattisgarh Congress is hand-in-glove with the Raman regime and that I should provide leadership for the people’s desire to have a new credible party that can end the Singh regime. My first commitment is to the people who have supported me throughout.I have urged all my supporters to gather at my village, Marwahi, on June 6, where we will decide on details such as the name of the party, symbol, etc.I met Soniaji, for whom I have the highest regard and respect. I apprised her of my views. I also met some other senior leaders. But I didn’t meet Rahul Gandhi Let me not comment on Rahul Gandhi as I don’t want to part on a bitter note. But everybody knows who is responsible for the pitiable ebb of Congress, reducing the party to just 44 Lok Sabha seats and 7% presence in India’s geographical map. Since only Digvijaya Singh attacked me today, let me respond to him by saying Congress came down to zero in AP and Telangana under his charge and Congress also lost UP when he was in-charge.Of course not! I was not even an aspirant for the RS ticket. Is it due to the AICC action against your son and possible action against you on alleged underhand help for Raman Singh and BJP in a bypoll? That is an old and baseless charge. I have filed a defamation case against BJP leaders who made that allegation.Since Digvijaya too made that charge today, I am making him, too, party in my defamation case.CLP leader TS Singh Deo’s family was given 53 acres in stealth by a previous state government. That makes him wary of action by the Raman regime. That also explains why Deo, as PAC chairman, gave a clean chit to Raman and his son in the Agusta helicopter purchase scam. PCC chief Bhupesh Beghal, who worked in my Cabinet, was then accused of an illegal land deal and I referred the case to Lokayukta. Both CLP and PCC leaders, therefore, can’t fight Raman Singh.