Congress submitted memorandum to Shahdol SP over attack on state party president
District Congress led by Ajay Awasthi gave the Shahdol SP a memorandum seeking adequate security for state Congress president Jitu Patwari after an alleged attack in Ratlam and action against the drug trade.
The district Congress, led by Shahdol District Congress Committee president Ajay Awasthi, submitted a memorandum to the Shahdol Superintendent of Police seeking adequate security for state Congress president Jitu Patwari and an end to the growing drug trade in the state. In the memorandum, district president Ajay Awasthi said: “Yesterday, 31 August 2025, during Shri Jitu Patwari’s visit to Ratlam, unknown persons gathered, created a violent atmosphere and carried out a life-threatening attack on him. Such attacks have occurred on Shri Jitu Patwari before, but the government is not serious about his security. We would like to inform you that the state has become a stronghold of drugs; new drug factories are being discovered constantly and material worth crores of rupees is being recovered from them. State Congress president Shri Patwari has been running a continuous campaign against drugs and is agitating continuously so that the state becomes drug-free and does not become a ‘Udta Pradesh’. It cannot be ruled out that he is being attacked repeatedly for this reason, so that he falls silent on this issue. Doubt about the government’s seriousness over his security also arises because photographs of arrested drug traders with BJP leaders keep appearing on social media. It cannot be ruled out that these accused enjoy political protection, and that is why their confidence has grown to the point that they dare to have the state Congress president attacked. We request you to issue instructions to provide adequate security to state Congress president Shri Jitu Patwari and also to take concrete steps to end the spreading drug trade in the state.”
The above information was provided by Piyush Shukla, chief spokesperson of the Shahdol District Congress Committee
Those present included district president Ajay Awasthi, former district president Neeraj Dwivedi, former municipal vice-president Kuldeep Nigam, senior Congress leaders Srinivas Sharma and Mahmood Ahmad, teachers’ cell district president Ram Naresh Tiwari, Jan Bhagidari member Purnendra Mishra, councillors Ashutosh Yadav and Hiralal Prajapati, former councillor Jitendra Singh, Sohagpur block president Shiv Shankar Shukla, Singhpur block president Anoop Singh, Premdhari Singh, Jaikaran Singh, Dalpratap Singh, Youth Congress district president Anupam Gautam, minority cell district president Siraj Khan, zila panchayat member Vikram Singh, social media district president Pritesh Dwivedi, janpad member Rajkumar Kol, former councillor Prabhat Pandey, district vice-president Anuj Mishra, NSUI state general secretary Ashish Tiwari, OBC cell district president Satyanarayan Sahu, and Rajkumar Pater, Om Prakash Chaudhary, Nilesh Sharma, Lal Manjaiswal, Shailja Singh, Phool Singh, Pradeep Singh Paraste, Pritam Das Soni, Shoaib Ansari, Harishankar Tiwari, Pushpraj Singh, Ashish Dwivedi, Aman Tiwari, Harsh Gautam, Mahendra Yadav, Deepanshu Gupta, Om Sahu, Anuj Yadav, Pawan Tiwari, Manoj Gupta, Ramesh Yadav, Kapil Kumar, Govind Sahu, Rakesh Dwivedi, Rinku Chaturvedi, Lalan Singh Marawi, Sheetal Tekam, Mahesh Singh, Nitin Pandey and hundreds of other Congress workers.
