BJP MP complains of poor response from ministers
BALLIA MP BHARAT SINGH WARNED OF ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES IF THINGS DID NOT IMPROVE
A BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday caused some red faces in a party meeting with his remarks that Union ministers were not responding adequately to their complaints about poor implementation of central schemes.
In the presence of PM Narendra Modi at the BJP parliamentary party meeting, sources said, Ballia MP Bharat Singh complained that MPs were being ignored and sought a favourable direction from the Centre to the states.
“Not even one km of road has been constructed in my constituency in last one year,” Singh said, referring to the rural road scheme of the centre. He warned party of electoral consequences if things do not improve.
Sources claimed that Singh’s remark, that ministers do not reply to their letters for months together, was greeted with some clapping by fellow MPs, prompting parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu to immediately call off the meeting.
A source said Ghosi MP Harinarayan Rajbhar had tried to raise a similar issue in the last meeting of the BJP parliamentary party, but Naidu stopped him.
The drama unfolded on a day when the party announced that the Jan Kalyan Parva would be observed between May 26 and June 1 to highlight the pro- poor and farmer measures of the Narendra Modi government.