After facing the ‘uncomfortable’ questions from some local people in his constituency during an event to Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Jorram Kumawat, the locals have alleged that the authorities were sent to their village on Sunday to disconnect their water and electricity connections to embarrass the minister.
On Saturday, the cabinet ministers of Kumawat, Animal Husbandry and Dairy, Gopalan and Devasthan Department, reached the Panchayat Bhawan in Gurdai to inaugurate the foundation stone and several development projects in Pali district in Sumerpur in their assembly constituency.
However, some local people started questioning the minister, citing dirty roads in the village. He said that the construction of roads had not started and it led to dirt and dirt. Some supporters of the minister and local public representatives tried to intervene and said that the minister had other busyness, further left without giving an address to the local people and the minister.
On Sunday, local authorities of water and electricity departments were allegedly sent to Gurdai to cut connections. In one of the viral videos, one is heard saying to a local; “Yesterday, the residents of the village placed our issues in front of Minister Jorram and today, they have sent a PHED team to cut the connection and trouble us”.
talking to The Indian ExpressThe man behind the video, 23 -year -old advocate Kiran Kumar Meena said: “I am a common man … We have one of the about 200 houses of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. When the Hon’ble Minister came yesterday, we wanted to tell them that the roof of our local school is leaking, which is a CC (cement concrete). Is “.
It was given a political angle, claiming.
“Sunday morning, teams were sent to cut water and electricity connections, claiming that we had illegal relations. We have taken connections at home, how it is illegal? If you think it is illegal, it is illegal, give us notice. We have a connection for five years,” Meena said, said, saying that he was the main goal “as I had the main goal and I was speaking).
“I am only fighting for my rights. And fighting for my rights is also my right,” he said, “The officials of the electricity department also said that my relationship is illegal. I said I said that I pay my bills and it is my 45 -year -old ancestral home.
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He said: “But if we do not tell our minister, we will tell whom? The minister should know that if he has become a minister, he should help people instead of sending officers and showing power in this way”.
He said that he is being targeted by local BJP local leaders, because we are SC, STS and hence they feel that we are bowing the Congress, but we are only ordinary citizens and we are following what Babsheb Bhimrao Ambedkar told us “.
While releasing the action as a “dictatorship of the BJP” and sharing the video of the incident, the Congress party said on Sunday: “Today, on the orders of the minister, the power and water connections of the villagers are being cut off. They are being punished for asking questions.”
Meena said that he recorded the video “Because BJP workers and government officials were torturing me mentally since yesterday. So, I recorded a video to save myself.” He said that finally, as more and more locals gathered in his support, the concerned engineers left the opportunity without disconnecting anything, and receiving the call from their superiors.
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Minister Kumawat could not be reached for comments. On Saturday, he had said that some Congress workers entered the inauguration program and opposed them, but they had instructed the authorities to clean the roads and make a proposal for the construction of roads.
On the allegations against the district administration, the District Collector Laxmi Narayan Minister said, “Talk to the Honorable Minister”, and said, “We are administrative officers; we do what we do.”
Meanwhile, Lok Sabha MP Hanuman Beniwal, smarting from electricity at his Nagaur residence – registered in his brother’s name – unpaid outstanding, shared a bill on Sunday, shared a bill, shared a bill, showing a bill showing the unpaid electricity dues of Energy Minister Herral Nagar. According to the online bill copy shared by the Rashtri Loktatric Party (RLP) supremo, the city owes Rs 2.17 lakh for the Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited. “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others,” said Beniwal. Minister Nagar did not respond to the call.
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