Indore top cop, SDM who knelt down to talk to Congress MLAs shunted out

The Madhya Pradesh authorities late Saturday evening transferred a sub-divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) and a metropolis superintendent of police (CSP) from Indore hours to Bhopal after they knelt down to speak to Congress MLAs together with a former minister to speak to and persuade them to withdraw their agitation.

A photograph of the SDM Rakesh Sharma and CSP DK Tiwari speaking to Congress MLA and ex-minister Jitu Patwari whereas the latter together with one other Congress MLA Sanjay Shukla and two different Congress leaders was staging a sit-in at Rajwada went viral on social media prompting the ruling social gathering leaders in Indore to query the conduct of the officers and demanding motion towards them.

The Congress MLAs had been demanding lodging of an FIR towards ex-MLA from BJP Sudarshan Gupta for his organising a programme with out the district administration’s permission to rejoice Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s birthday on Friday.

An enormous crowd turned as much as obtain meals grains from Gupta on the programme because the latter had introduced resulting in a chaotic scenario and social distancing norms thrown to the wind. There was even loot of meals grains packets by a lot of folks.

District collector, Indore Manish Singh served a discover to Sharma as to ‘why a disciplinary action be not taken against him for compromising with dignity of a magistrate’. However, inside hours of the discover Sharma was transferred from Indore to the state secretariat ‘with immediate effect on administrative ground’. The CSP DK Tiwari too was transferred from Indore to police headquarters at Bhopal ‘with immediate effect’, as per the present trigger discover and the switch orders.

State Congress chief KK Mishra mentioned, “The BJP government exposed its parochial view by transferring the officers. This is a politically motivated decision causing injustice to officers who were discharging their duties by persuading public representatives to withdraw their agitation.”

State Congress president’s media coordinator Narendra Saluja mentioned, “Congress was in power for 15 months since December 2018 but it never showed any political bias. Those who were staging the sit-in are public representatives. Did the officers commit any mistake by showing respect to public representatives?”

Chief secretary Iqbal Singh Bains and director common of police (DGP) Vivek Johri couldn’t be reached for his or her feedback. They didn’t take telephone calls and didn’t reply to textual content messages.

State BJP spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal brushed apart the Congress’ objections. “The government is empowered to take decisions on transfers of officers on administrative grounds. It will be better if the Congress focuses on real issues concerning people,” he mentioned.