After Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister T S Singh Deo apologised suo motu for applauding Modi at a function in Raigadh on Thursday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge ordered the extended CWC not to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi unduly.
“You have come here today to give something,” Singh Deo remarked on stage with the PM. You have given Chhattisgarh a lot of stuff. And I am confident that you will continue to give us more in the future.” “In my experience, I did not feel any partiality,” he continued. If the state needed something from the center, the government was always willing to help.”
While the Congress first dismissed Singh Deo’s words as courtesy, the Chhattisgarh minister apologized for them during the prolonged CWC meeting. For many months, Singh Deo’s request to replace Bhupesh Baghel as chief minister was ignored. In a balancing effort, he was appointed deputy chief minister in July this year, fewer than six months before Chhattisgarh goes to the polls.
However, Kharge, who is leading the Congress’s onslaught on the Prime Minister in Parliament and elsewhere, expressed his dissatisfaction. “He told Singh Deo that his apology would not make the mistake go away.” “He asked Singh Deo and all other CWC members to be cautious and not overly praise the PM,” said a leader present at the meeting.
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On Saturday, the Congress Working Committee passed a resolution condemning the Modi administration’s systematic undermining of the federal structure and claiming discrimination against opposition-ruled states.
“The Modi government has systematically undermined federalism by overriding legislation, reducing the states’ share of tax revenues, misusing the Governor’s office, creating roadblocks in implementing schemes and programs in opposition-governed states (such as the food security guarantee in Karnataka), and denying emergency funds and disaster relief to states like Himachal Pradesh that have been hit by floods and landslides,” it says.
