Cong claims minister for PHE Sampatiya Uikey revealed cabinet colleague Nagar Singh Chouhan is a liquor dealer

Cong claims minister for PHE Sampatiya Uikey revealed cabinet colleague Nagar Singh Chouhan is a liquor dealer

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Bhopal: State Congress on Monday alleged that a storm is brewing within the Mohan Yadav govt. Both state PCC chief Jitu Patwari and LOP Umang Singhar claimed that during the review meeting held at the chief minister’s residence on Sunday, minister for PHE (public health engineering) Sampatiya Uikey told chief minister Mohan Yadav, state BJP chief Hemant Khandelwal and several state party functionaries that minister for scheduled caste welfare Nagar Singh Chouhan is a “liquor dealer” and she cannot coordinate with him.

Sampatiya Uikey is the minister in-charge of Alirajpur and Nagar Singh Chouhan comes from the same district. Taking a dig at the situation within Mohan Yadav’s cabinet, state Congress president Jitu Patwari shot a letter to the chief minister on Monday and said, “The report card of your govt’s ministers in Madhya Pradesh is no longer being revealed in closed-door review meetings, but rather through public outrage, the displeasure of MLAs, and questions raised within your own govt.”

On Sunday, chief minister Yadav and state BJP president Hemant Khandelwal took performance review meetings of 20 ministers of the govt. The ministers were called one after another for the review meeting.

LOP Umang Singhar took to the social media and claimed, “In a BJP meeting, minister-in-charge Sampatiya Uikey said, Nagar Singh Chauhan is a liquor dealer, we cannot coordinate with him. This means that ministers in the BJP govt are now openly accusing each other of being involved in the liquor trade. This is the true performance report card of BJP ministers.”

Singhar further said, “Now, the question to chief minister Mohan Yadav is, will any action be taken against the minister (Nagar Singh Chouhan) after this statement, or is mafia rule and alcoholism the new norm within the BJP?”

PCC chief Jitu Patwari’s letter to the chief minister also alleged, “On one hand, your minister in charge is admitting that Nagar Singh Chauhan’s liquor business in Alirajpur is raising questions about coordination and governance. On the other hand, in Indore, the country’s first “water-plus city,” people are crying for water, and even BJP MLAs are skipping public events to express their anger over the water crisis situation.”

Patwari wrote that this is not an opposition allegation, but the truth that is emerging from within the state govt. “You are asking ministers how many nights they stayed in districts, how many meetings they held, and how many workers they met? But the public is asking how many homes are receiving water? How many daughters are safe from the fear of alcohol and crime? How many youths futures are protected from addiction?”

The state Congress president said that truth is that the BJP’s system of governance has collapsed. “Coordination has collapsed. Administrative control has weakened. Public trust has been shattered. Therefore, stop this drama of ministerial reviews. Public anger is the true report card of your govt,” he wrote in the letter.