MP: After minister’s kin threaten Sheopur CEO, officials go on strike

BHOPAL: Three hundred

chief executive officers

(CEO) of janpad panchayats went on two-day mass leave on November 7 to protest against alleged 'threat' to the CEO of Sheopur janpad by a relative of animal husbandry minister Lakhan Singh Yadav.


The janpad CEOs held protests across the state on Thursday and presented memorandums to district collectors, seeking protection. Sheopur janpad CEO Joshua Peter said that an FIR has been registered against Sanjay Yadav, a nephew of the minister and Youth Congress leader, and Ankit

Mudgal

, his friend. “They should be arrested. We also demand implementation of protection act law for CEOs,” says the memorandum submitted to collectors.

Bhupesh Gupta

, state president of the association, said, “Janpad CEOs are working under stress, and there have been several attacks on them in the past five years. We need protection.” Janpad panchayat CEOs are of the rank of joint and deputy commissioner of rural development department.

In the last three days, three cases of intimidation of government officials have been reported. On November 5, Sanjay and Ankit had allegedly called and terrorised the CEO of Sheopur Janpad to clear the bills of a contractor. On Wednesday, Santram Sironiya, husband of Congress MLA Raksha Sironiya, allegedly snatched the mobile phone of

Datia

SDM JP Gupta when he was recording Santram’s 'unruly behaviour'. Gupta said that Sironiya was exerting pressure on him to release an overloaded tractor trolley of Ajay Shukla, another Congress leader. “And when he did not release the trolley, Sironiya started misbehaving with me publicly for which I switched on the video camera of mobile and started recording,” he told the district collector while submitting a memorandum on Thursday. Other district administration officials were present.

Later, MLAs husband was booked Section 353 (creating hurdle in government servant’s work), 189 (threat to injury to public servant) and 504 (intentional insult to crete breach of peace) of the IPC.

On Wednesday, the contrvertial MLA of BSP in

Damoh

, had misbehaved with the district treasury officer Vivek Gharoo. After the incident, Gharoo also lodged a complaint with the district collector and handed him over visual evidence of the whole episode. Though, he lodged a police complaint, FIR was not lodged.

The MLA denied all the allegations.

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