RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Nov.9: Mahagama MLA and Congress party leader Deepika Pandey Singh suggested chief minister Hemant Soren to save his ‘Saakh (trust/goodwill)’ within time and put a check on the public servants behaving in an arbitrary manner with people’s representatives.
Her suggestion came through a video message to the chief minister on Facebook after she, being a people’s representative, felt humiliated having received a packet of sweets with Deepawali greetings of the chief minister through the driver of the block development officer of Mahagama.
Deepika confirmed her suggestion through a video message saying she received the packet of sweets on Monday and felt humiliated.
“Ideally, the SDO of Mahagama Jitendra Dev should have come to me with a message of the chief minister but the message came through the driver of Mahagama BDO Praveen Choudhary,” Deepika said expressing her concern over the attitude of government officials of humiliating a people’s representative.
Though it appears to be a simple case of communication of a lady MLA of the ruling alliance with the chief minister, sources in Congress said its root lies in an FIR registered by police against Deepika in April this year.
The FIR was allegedly lodged silently after she alleged that a police officer of Godda Kashyap Gautam despite remaining in suspension possessed important case files to negotiate for money.
The controversy took another turn when the MLA who came to know about the FIR came to the police station for her arrest. She charged the local police for highhandedness. She expressed surprise over the Hemant Soren government allowing FIRs against elected representatives for speaking for people.
“Interestingly, while the investigation was going on and Deepika was expressing her concern over police action, her political rival in Godda along with the Jharkhand Police Association played another game. They managed an official order for the inquiry of this case by the CID. Though the order of CID inquiry was later rescinded after the MLA raised an objection with the chief minister and Jharkhand High Court on October 26 this year also directed police not to take any coercive action against her, the entire episode made her clear that all is not going well in the system of governance in Hemant rule. She apparently decided to bring anything in the knowledge of the chief minister through social media with a view to hit two birds with one stone,” a Congress party insider said.
Another party insider supported the fact saying Deepika had also raised her voice and brought the matter in the knowledge of party high command after the issue of toppling Hemant Soren government arose and indirectly a section of Congress party leaders were being targeted for the same.
“She had asked to make the name of the Congress party legislators involved in toppling government public when a smear campaign was started to tarnish the image of Congress party and it was being indirectly told by police that eight Congress party MLAs are hatching a conspiracy to topple the Hemant Soren government. She had asked to stop this campaign threatening to withdraw support from the government and limit its role to outside support only,” the insider said.
https://www.facebook.com/DipikaPS/videos/1009051199875644/
