Chhattisgarh: Congress MLA desires sedition fees towards DM for not sending VIP invites to politicians

Shailesh Pandey, the Congress MLA from Bilaspur seat has demanded Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to cost Bilaspur district collector Dr Saransh Mittar with sedition for “neglecting and disrespecting” elected representatives by sending them an peculiar invitation card to attend the state basis day programme held on November 1.
The MLA was significantly peeved as he was not invited as a visitor of the Rajyotsav (statehood celebrations) programme with a particular invitation.
In the Congress-ruled Chhattisgadh, such a bizarre demand of a ruling celebration MLA doesn’t sound uncommon for the reason that Congress-ruled authorities has been accused of misusing sedition fees towards political opponents and media individuals.
The MLA within the letter despatched to the chief minister on November 2 has demanded rapid removing of Bilaspur collector alleging the officer usually insults MLAs of the ruling Congress. “He (collector) sent ordinary invitation cards to elected representatives to attend the programme like one given to ordinary people. He has insulted your government, people and public representatives elected by people. This act of collector comes under the category of sedition hence I request you to remove and charge him for sedition,” MLA stated.
Letter of Congress MLA addressed to Chief Minister, picture by way of Bhaskar In the letter, the MLA has lamented that many elected representatives like Zilla Panchayat president, Municipality Chairperson, and different native physique leaders got ‘just ordinary invitation cards like common people’ and never specifically invited. He known as this an insult towards elected representatives.
For the Rajyotsav occasion in Bilaspur, the district administration had printed the identify of the Parliamentary secretary Indrashah Mandavi because the chief visitor and no different identify was talked about as a visitor. Indrashah Mandavi is the Congress MLA from Mohla-Manpur meeting seat. While the statehood programme was celebrated in all districts of Chhattisgarh, the MLA stated that the state authorities despatched the listing of individuals who have been to be chief friends. He stated that in different districts, the involved district collector invited elected representatives with full honour because the visitor of the programme. But Bilaspur district collector despatched an peculiar invitation to them ‘like common people’.
A Raipur-based journalist stated that the likelihood can’t be ignored that Shailesh Pandey was intentionally ignored for the programme since he’s near well being minister TS Singh Deo who desires to move the state as chief minister for the remaining two and half years.
“But this also exposes classic hypocrisy of the Congress on the issue of sedition law. During elections, Congress speaks against sedition law and promises to scrap there this. But in the Congress-ruled government, there is no restrain on the use of sedition law. Even in minor cases, which was not even an offence, people were booked under sedition law. In June 2019, a person Mangelal Agarwal from Rajnandgaon was arrested under sedition charges after he wrote a post on social media site about the poor condition of the electricity in Chhattisgadh,” stated the journalist.