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Union Minister Shivraj Chouhan, MP CM Mohan Yadav and BJP person Ramakant Bhargava successful Bhairunda, MP. (X/ OfficeofSSC)
The Union Ministry of Rural Development, led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, approved `1.59 crore from 2 Central schemes for an lawsuit successful Madhya Pradesh’s Budhni Assembly constituency — a spot helium vacated aft becoming MP — conscionable days earlier its bypoll was announced, The Indian Express has learned.
The Ministry’s Gram Vikas Sammelan was held connected October 8 astatine Bhairunda, a nagar panchayat successful Sehore territory that comes nether Budhni Assembly segment. It was attended by Chouhan, CM Mohan Yadav, and section BJP leaders, including erstwhile MP Ramakant Bhargava who was subsequently announced arsenic the BJP campaigner for the byelection.
It was a week earlier the Model Code of Conduct came into effect arsenic the EC, connected October 15, announced that the Budhni bypoll volition beryllium held connected November 13 and ballot number connected November 23.
To marque arrangements for the event, it is learnt, connected October 1 the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zila Panchayat Sehore wrote to Principal Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development, Government of Madhya Pradesh, requesting him to marque disposable `1.59 crore successful Zila Panchayat’s slope account.
“In this program, astir 20,000 radical volition participate. An magnitude of `10 lakh volition beryllium required to marque arrangements of nutrient for these people, `65 lakh (GST extra) for tents, `84 lakh for 500 buses,” the CEO wrote.
The aforesaid day, MP officials forwarded the Sehore CEO’s petition to the Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). The support came wrong days.
On October 5, an MoRD authoritative wrote backmost to the state’s Principal Secretary, Rural Development: “In this regard, I americium to convey that it has been decided with the support of the ‘Competent Authority’ that the expenditure amounting to `1.59 crore would beryllium met from the Admn funds of the schemes of PMAY-G and NRLM connected 50-50 ground disposable with the authorities government.”
An email seeking comments from MoRD did not elicit a response. When contacted, Sehore Zila Panchayat CEO Nitin Kumar Tale said helium could not talk astir the lawsuit without seeing the applicable papers.
Deepali Rastogi, Principal Secretary successful Panchayat & Rural Development Department, MP, said, “Such programmes are allowed nether the medication and IEC (information, acquisition and communication) components of the schemes,” she said.
The Bhairunda lawsuit saw philharmonic performances, speeches and motorboat of authorities initiatives similar Awas Sakhi Mobile App.
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