Cong protests ‘anti-people’ policies of BJP govt, leaders & workers stopped at Jawahar Chowk

Bhopal: State Congress' Jawab Do Hisab Do protest against the Mohan Yadav govt's alleged anti-people policies on Monday was planned to be a state assembly gherao on the first day of the winter session. But it started at Jawahar Chowk and ended there as police stopped protestors with strong barricades and arrested opposition leaders from the dais.
Jawahar Chowk protest site on Monday became a temporary jail for Congress workers because there was no place to accommodate the agitators in the jails.
Former chief minister Kamal Nath, state Congress president Jitu Patwari and LOP Umang Singhar addressed the gathering of agitators. Party's central leaders Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Pawan Kheda and Alka Lamba were present along with Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Tankha, former LOPs Ajay Singh and Dr Govind Singh, former PCC chiefs Arun Yadav and Kantilal Bhuria, former ministers NP Prajapati, Rajendra Singh, Sajjan Singh Verma, Kamleshwar Patel, Omkar Markam, PC Sharma, Jaivardhan Singh, Priyavrat Singh along with a party's sitting MLAs.
The protest led by Jitu Patwari and Umang Singhar that started in the afternoon continued for three hours. Addressing the gathering, AICC general secretary in-charge of Madhya Pradesh affairs Banwar Jitendra Singh said, "Today the country and the state are being run by a govt of loot, exploitation, oppression, debt, crime and corruption. The BJP govt in the state is continuously committing atrocities and injustice against farmers. In the assembly elections, Shivraj Singh Chauhan made false promises to farmers, misled them and formed the govt by promising support price of Rs 3100 for paddy and Rs 2700 for wheat."
Former chief minister Kamal Nath said that democracy is in danger in the country and the state. "BJP is attacking the democratic system by adopting a dictatorial attitude. By putting pressure on the administration, it interferes in the electoral process which is a threat to the democracy."
AICC media head Pawan Khera said that BJP is the most untruthful political party in the world. "None of the promises made by BJP to farmers, women and youth during the elections have been fulfilled. Farmers are facing shortage of fertilizers and seeds," Kheda alleged.
State Congress chief Jitu Patwari said that LOP Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has spoken about caste census, which is the need of the country. "The poor have the first right on the resources of the country. Caste census is a post-mortem between the poor and the rich," he said. Patwari said that the former Shivraj govt and the present Mohan Yadav government which promised to give jobs to the youth are playing with the future of the youth.
LOP Umang Singhar said that the state has become a refuge for criminals.