REWA: Months forward of the essential Assembly elections whereby the BJP is leaving no stone unturned to win one other straight time period, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday introduced the creation of Mauganj, a tehsil in Rewa, because the 53rd district within the state. The transfer is seemingly aimed toward nipping discontent in opposition to the federal government over the ‘lack of satisfactory illustration’ to the politically essential Vindhya area within the state cupboard within the bud, political observers stated.
The long-pending demand to create Mauganj district has gathered steam just lately. “The national flag will be hoisted in the new Mauganj district (headquarters) on August 15,” Chouhan stated at a operate wherein he just about transferred Rs 605 crore as help within the financial institution accounts of 27,310 beneficiaries beneath the ‘Sambal Yojana’.
Besides, the chief minister laid the muse stones for initiatives value greater than Rs 738 crore, a lot of them in Mauganj. Among the brand new initiatives, 10 works value Rs 73.56 crore could be carried out within the new district, official sources stated.
Listing the deserves of the Sambal Yojana, primarily aimed toward catering to unorganised labourers, Chouhan stated this scheme supplies assist from beginning to demise. Blasting his predecessor Kamal Nath of Congress, Chouhan stated Nath had deserted the scheme throughout his 15-month stint as chief minister from December 2018 to March 2020.
The new Mauganj district, bordering Uttar Pradesh, may have 4 tehsils – Mauganj, Hanumana, Naigarhi, and Devtalab, sources stated, including that its inhabitants is greater than six lakh.
With the creation of the brand new district, two Assembly segments presently held by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had gone to Mauganj. Now, Rewa district has been left with six meeting seats.
The Rewa division will now have 5 districts, particularly Rewa, Mauganj, Satna, Sidhi, and Singrauli, whereas the variety of districts within the Vindhya area shall be eight.
Though the Vindhya area is a stronghold of the BJP, it obtained only one ministerial berth within the Chouhan cupboard.
In the 2018 MP meeting elections, the BJP received 24 of 30 seats within the Vindhya area whereas the Congress could not open its account in 4 districts of the area.
Recently, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made inroads into some pockets of this area, a improvement which has turn out to be a reason behind fear for the BJP.
The AAP received the mayoral election in Singrauli metropolis within the Vindhya area final 12 months.
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“People had been demanding for a long time that Mauganj be made a district. Now the people will ask for the creation of Maihar in Satna as a new district. Maihar has witnessed many protests led by local BJP MLA Narayan Tripathi for this demand,” senior journalist Rajesh Dwivedi informed PTI.
He stated the BJP couldn’t derive a lot political mileage out of the creation of Mauganj district forward of the polls on condition that the folks within the area really feel uncared for over solely a single ministerial berth being allotted to the area.
“Ramkhelawan Patel was the only representation from the region. But after the demand for separate Vindhya Pradesh gained momentum, Girish Gautam was made the Speaker of the MP Assembly,” Dwivedi stated.
After 15 years of BJP rule, the 2018 elections in Madhya Pradesh threw up a hung Assembly, with the Congress rising as the biggest social gathering with 114 seats within the 230-member House, however failing to win a majority.
The BJP had received 109 seats. The Congress later shaped a coalition authorities headed by Kamal Nath. However, the dispensation collapsed in March 2020 after a number of MLAs of Congress defected to BJP, paving the best way for the saffron social gathering to return to energy beneath Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
