Tag: Mahendra Singh Sisodia

  • Amid Scindia-Vijayvargiya bonhomie, two MP ministers vent anger on bureaucracy

    By PTI

    BHOPAL: Two Madhya Pradesh ministers close to Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia have aired their grievances in public about the working of the state bureaucracy, leaving the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party embarrassed.

    Their outburst comes at a time when there is buzz in the state political circles about the growing bonhomie between Scindia and party general secretary Kailah Vjayvargiya, a powerful leader often seen as a rival of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

    In letters to the state Co-operative Societies commissioner as well as the local collector, MP Public Health Minister Brijendra Singh Yadav has sought action against an officer for alleged irregularities in appointments in Ashok Nagar district.

    Yadav, who is the MLA from Mungaoli in Ashok Nagar, is also reportedly unhappy with the collector and, in his letter, has sought a probe by the deputy collector into these alleged irregular appointments.

    Yadav could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.

    His letter comes a day after MP Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia vented his anger in public about the top bureaucrat in the state.

    Talking to a media outlet in Guna, Sisodia said the administration was running “nirankush” (amok) and blamed Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains for it.

    Sisodia has also expressed anger at the transfer of some inspectors by the Shivpuri superintendent of police without his approval.

    Sisodia is the guardian minister of the district.

    However, on Friday, Sisodia said he had no complaints anymore after meeting CM Chouhan, adding that “all is normal now and there is no point in talking about the issue”.

    Yadav and Sisodia were among the 22 MLAs who switched to the BJP in March 2020, which brought down the Congress’ Kamal Nath government.

    Scindia too joined the BJP soon after and was made Union civil aviation minister.

    Meanwhile, on Saturday, at a function in Indore, Scindia got off the stage after noticing Vijayvargiya seated in the first row and held him by the hand and brought him on the dais.

    On August 22, Scindia had called on Vijayvargiya at the latter’s home in Indore.

    BHOPAL: Two Madhya Pradesh ministers close to Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia have aired their grievances in public about the working of the state bureaucracy, leaving the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party embarrassed.

    Their outburst comes at a time when there is buzz in the state political circles about the growing bonhomie between Scindia and party general secretary Kailah Vjayvargiya, a powerful leader often seen as a rival of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

    In letters to the state Co-operative Societies commissioner as well as the local collector, MP Public Health Minister Brijendra Singh Yadav has sought action against an officer for alleged irregularities in appointments in Ashok Nagar district.

    Yadav, who is the MLA from Mungaoli in Ashok Nagar, is also reportedly unhappy with the collector and, in his letter, has sought a probe by the deputy collector into these alleged irregular appointments.

    Yadav could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.

    His letter comes a day after MP Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia vented his anger in public about the top bureaucrat in the state.

    Talking to a media outlet in Guna, Sisodia said the administration was running “nirankush” (amok) and blamed Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains for it.

    Sisodia has also expressed anger at the transfer of some inspectors by the Shivpuri superintendent of police without his approval.

    Sisodia is the guardian minister of the district.

    However, on Friday, Sisodia said he had no complaints anymore after meeting CM Chouhan, adding that “all is normal now and there is no point in talking about the issue”.

    Yadav and Sisodia were among the 22 MLAs who switched to the BJP in March 2020, which brought down the Congress’ Kamal Nath government.

    Scindia too joined the BJP soon after and was made Union civil aviation minister.

    Meanwhile, on Saturday, at a function in Indore, Scindia got off the stage after noticing Vijayvargiya seated in the first row and held him by the hand and brought him on the dais.

    On August 22, Scindia had called on Vijayvargiya at the latter’s home in Indore.

  • Controversial poster of Jyotiraditya Scindia put up in MP; cops remove it

    By PTI
    INDORE: A controversial poster of BJP Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia was put up on Thursday in Indore by protesters who were enraged over the “change” in the name of a road in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh.

    Police later removed the poster and dispersed the protesters, an official said.

    A group of people, calling themselves supporters of Ahilyabai Holkar, a prominent 18th century ruler of the Malwa kingdom, claimed the road in question was earlier named after her, a claim rejected by the Guna district administration.

    The road has now been named after freedom fighter the late Sagar Singh Sisodia, who is the grandfather of the states Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister, Mahendra Singh Sisodia.

    Mahendra Sisodia is a loyalist of Scindia and was among the nearly two dozen MLAs who quit the Congress to join the BJP in March last year.

    The minister represents the Bamori assembly seat in Guna district, the home turf of Scindia.

    The Guna Municipal Council (GMC) had organised a prgramme on Monday to name the street, Budhe Balaji Hanuman Tekri road, after Sagar Singh Sisodia.

    The plaque was unveiled by Scindia on the occasion.

    According to eyewitnesses, days after the programme, some protesters put up the poster at Rajbada in Indore, before a bust of Holkar, with a message critical of Scindia.

    The poster carried photos of both Holkar and Scindia, but the image of the latter was marked with a red cross.

    “We told protesters they dont have permission to hold a protest in the Rajbada area following which they dispersed,” Sarafa police station in-charge Sunil Sharma told PTI.

    He said so far no case has been registered in the matter.

    Guna collector Kumar Purshottam said, It is totally wrong to say that as per government records the road, which was named after the late freedom fighter Sagar Singh Sisodia, was earlier known as the Ahilyabai Holkar road.

    The GMC had passed a resolution on August 6, 2019, to name the road after Sagar Singh Sisodia, Purshottam said, adding before that the street was not named after any eminent personality.