BJP Mahila Morcha held large protest rally in Singrauli, burned Rahul Gandhi effigy
BJP women’s wing workers in Singrauli took out a rally and burned an effigy of Rahul Gandhi over a remark about the Prime Minister’s mother made at a Congress-backed stage in Bihar.
There was anger across the country over an objectionable remark about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother made shortly before on a Congress and PDA stage in Bihar. The Bharatiya Janata Party appeared deeply incensed by this act of the Congress. Across the country, the BJP was staging fierce protests against the Congress and Rahul Gandhi and pressing them to apologise.
On the instructions of the top leadership of the Madhya Pradesh BJP, the party in Singrauli district took out a large protest rally, targeted the Congress and burned an effigy of Rahul Gandhi. Thousands of Mahila Morcha workers took part in the protest and burned the effigy under the leadership of district president Sundarlal Shah, in the special presence of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Radha Singh, Singrauli MLA Ramniwas Shah, Devsar MLA Rajendra Meshram, CIDA chairman Dilip Shah and corporation chairman Devesh Pandey.
The rally assembled at Atal Community Hall in Bilaunji. Thousands of women workers and BJP members, carrying the effigy of Rahul Gandhi, shouted slogans against the Congress and Rahul Gandhi as they marched from Bilaunji intersection to the main road, passing in front of the Collectorate and the Superintendent of Police’s office, and gathered at Rajiv Gandhi Chowk, where slogans were again raised against Rahul Gandhi and the Congress and the effigy was burned. The district president and all the leaders called the Congress party uncultured and ill-mannered, and lashed out at Rahul Gandhi, calling him mentally ill. Women leaders called the remark about the Prime Minister’s mother deeply shameful and demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi. Mahila Morcha workers also expressed anger over recent statements by Congress state president Jitu Patwari and described the entire Congress party as anti-women. Among those present were former MLA Subhash Verma, former mayor Premvati Khairwar, district vice-president Rajesh Tiwari, Saroj Shah, Asha Yadav, Saroj Singh, Arvind Dubey, district general secretary Lalpati Saket, Rajkumar Dubey, district secretary Poonam Gupta, Kalavati Yadav, Arvind Tiwari, Pravendra Dhar Dwivedi, Vinod Chaubey, treasurer Haridas Gupta, Mahila Morcha district president Seema Jaiswal, general secretary Rituva Singh, senior leaders Madhu Jha, Itwari Devi, Asha Pandey, Neelam Tiwari, Preeti Panadiya, Archana Tiwari, Sundar Kali, Urmila Saket, Raivati Panika, Sunita Shah, Anita Gupta, Sandhya Chandravanshi, Saraswati Shah, Durga Kanaujiya, Satyabhama Singh and Pooja Dwivedi, along with thousands of women workers.
