Chandigarh: Villagers at Dogda Ahir in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district protested in opposition to CM Manohar Lal Khattar Friday for declaring Sihma village as a sub-tehsil as an alternative of their very own. They alleged that their village was larger in space and inhabitants and sought an upgradation to its administrative standing, the demand for which, they mentioned, was a lot older.
A sub-tehsil is a small administrative unit inside a district with a chosen populated space the place folks’s official chores like income issues, registration of properties, and so forth., are executed.
Khattar, who was in Mahendragarh for the final leg of his three-day Jan Samvad (public interplay) programme, stayed the night time on the residence of an area Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) employee at Dogda Ahir Thursday. The subsequent morning, villagers assembled exterior the home and held a sit-in.
Nevertheless, they later dispersed after the chief minister known as a few of them inside and guaranteed {that a} feasibility evaluation could be carried out for his or her village as properly.
On Thursday, Khattar was in Sihma, the place he introduced the grant of sub-tehsil standing to the village amid applause.
Talking concerning the incident at Dogda Ahir, a senior official of the Haryana authorities, requesting anonymity, advised ThePrint that it was nothing however an try by the villagers to boost their concern with the chief minister, which was then promptly addressed.
The protests got here shut on the heels of an incident at Bani village of Sirsa on 15 Might when a girl sarpanch, Naina Jhorar, threw her dupatta on Khattar’s toes throughout a Jan Samwad programme, accusing him of refusing to hearken to her grievance.
In keeping with former journalist Pawan Kumar Bansal, who has authored three books on Haryana politics, it’s unprecedented for villagers to put siege to a spot the place a chief minister stayed the night time.
“It’s a failure of the state intelligence businesses, who ought to have gauged the anger among the many villagers and apprised the CM about this prematurely,” he advised ThePrint Saturday.
Talking concerning the incidents in Sirsa and Mahendragarh districts, Bansal mentioned these incidents had been worrying indicators for Khattar and the BJP forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Khattar, who has hinted that he favours simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and Haryana Meeting, has began his Jan Samvad programmes to satisfy folks and deal with their grievances.
(Edited by Richa Mishra)
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