BHOPAL: Three days after a political controversy erupted in Madhya Pradesh over Rajgarh district collector Nidhi Nivedita and female deputy collector slapping Citizenship (Amendment) Act supporters and BJP workers, a fresh one broke out on Wednesday following ex-MP minister and senior BJP leader Badrilal Yadav’s objectionable remark about the same female district collector.
While addressing a public gathering to protest Sunday’s incident in Biaora town of Rajgarh district, he demanded to register a criminal case against the female district collector and deputy collector.
Yadav (the former MP minister) made objectionable remarks about the female collector alleging that she appeased Congress leaders but used slaps and canes to deal with BJP workers.
And if that wasn’t all, another senior BJP leader and former Vidhan Sabha speaker, Dr Sitasaran Sharma, while addressing a party program in Hoshangabad district, said: “What happened in Biaora on Sunday, happened suddenly.
“Had it not been women (the collector and deputy collector) our workers would have twisted their hands,” said Sharma.
According to informed sources, Rajgarh police have called for the video of Yadav’s objectionable remark on Wednesday and a case is likely to be registered against the former MP minister.
Importantly two BJP workers have already been booked under sections 353 and 354 of IPC in Rajgarh for misbehaving with the female deputy collector on Sunday.
Yadav’s remarks drew sharp criticism from the ruling Congress party, as Mahila Congress workers set Yadav’s effigy ablaze in Bhopal, while an advocate M Sheikh reported the matter on the MP Police’s portal.
Meanwhile, addressing the public rally in Biaora town of Rajgarh, former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the slap on the face of BJP worker Ravi Badone by the district collector on Sunday will prove to be the last nail in the Congress government’s coffin in Madhya Pradesh.
Slamming the district collector for “taking law in her hands” while dealing with peaceful CAA supporters in Biaora town on Sunday, the Leader of Opposition in State Assembly Gopal Bhargava said, “the slapping of the national flag wielding and Bharat Mata ki Jai chanting BJP workers and CAA supporters by the woman district collector of Rajgarh on Sunday suggests that either the cops deployed during the protest were incompetent or else the collector herself is too hot-tempered.”
Stating that the virus of JNU has reached MP also, BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said: “We’re not going to be cowed down by the slapping of peaceful CAA supporters by the collector and her deputy.”
In a related development, the MP State Administrative Services body has come out in support of the two female officers of Rajgarh district administration and demanded more security to them.
(THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS)