Former Chief Minister and Congress legislator Ajit
Jogi on Friday said that no development at ground level prompted over 400
sarpanchs of Mahasamund district to tender mass resignation with their 11-point
demand.
“The BJP government is adopting authoritarian attitude
towards the public representatives and ignoring their genuine demands. Since,
the majority of the public representatives in Mahasamund district belong to
Congress, the BJP government never take initiative for their areas,” Jogi said.
“Instead of effectively implementing panchayati raj
system in rural pockets and carrying out Central schemes like MNREGA transparently,
the government is playing politics,” he added.
“The mass resignation of sarpanchs will be remembered
as black day for panchayati raj system and democracy in the history of
Chhattisgarh,” he said.
He alleged that the government was also conspiring to
remove Congress public representatives unconstitutionally.
“In past eight years, the ruling BJP has removed
several Congress public representatives in panchayats on false charges of
financial irregularity and corruption. This renders thousands of significant posts
vacant. The government reorganises elections in such areas and waste public
money. Meanwhile, in the absence of public representatives, the development in
local areas stops,” Jogi said.
“The government is also trespassing in the affairs of
Congress public representatives. It has snatched rights from Congress mayors
and presidents of municipal councils/nagar panchayats and empowered the
officials,” he added.
He demanded from the government to quickly fulfil the
demands of the sarpanchs who had tendered mass resignation and to stop its
vindictive acts towards Congress.
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