Sagar Watch News/ The District City Congress Committee, Sagar, on Friday strongly accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Madhya Pradesh of attacking people’s basic rights and weakening democracy.
Addressing a press conference, District City Congress President Mahesh Jatav said that rising unemployment, loss of labour rights, unsafe drinking water and alleged manipulation of voter lists have become the most serious current issues facing the country.
Top Priority Issues Raised:
1. Threat to Employment and MNREGA:
Mahesh Jatav said the BJP-led central government is weakening the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), which once gave poor rural families a legal right to work.
He alleged that changes in the scheme, low wages, no budget increase despite inflation, and strict rules like mandatory apps and Aadhaar-based payments have deprived nearly 2 crore workers of employment.
Congress demanded restoration of legal job guarantee and an increase in daily wages to ₹400.
Calling the Indore water contamination incident an “administrative massacre”, Congress leaders said it is shocking that people are dying after drinking polluted water in a city ranked number one in cleanliness.
They blamed corruption, poor planning and negligence for mixing of drinking water and drainage lines, despite spending crores of rupees.
3. Alleged Voter List Manipulation (SIR):
Congress termed the deletion of around 40,000 names from the Sagar Assembly voter list a major democratic issue. Mahesh Jatav alleged this was a case of “vote theft” and questioned why officials involved in adding and deleting names were not punished. The party said such actions directly harm free and fair elections.
4. Centralised Control and Contractor System:
State Congress spokesperson Dr Sandeep Sablok alleged that new changes in MNREGA are bringing back the contractor system, reducing the powers of village panchayats and shifting decisions to Delhi, which hurts local workers.
Political Action Ahead:
Senior leader Amit Ramji Dubey announced a statewide movement under the leadership of MP Congress President Jitu Patwari, starting with a major protest in Indore on January 11, against what Congress called the BJP’s “three-way failure” — jobs, basic services and voting rights.
Leader of Opposition in the Municipal Corporation, Babu Singh Babbu Yadav, warned of a large protest in cities over pipeline leakages and contaminated water, saying repeated warnings to civic bodies have been ignored.
Congress leaders said they will take these issues directly to the public, calling them matters of livelihood, health and democracy, which cannot be ignored any longer.
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