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New Delhi: Residents of a remote village in Madhya Pradesh’s Ashoknagar district accuse the ruling BJP of denying them water from bore-wells unless they take oaths they have voted for the BJP in the Assembly polls.
The complaints have emerged from Nayakheda village in the Mungawali Assembly constituency, which is currently represented by the state minister Brijendra Singh Yadav, according to India Today.
Brijendra Singh Yadav denied the allegations saying ‘I don't understand why such a thing is happening after the election.’
Yadav, who is the Public Health Engineering Minister, said that he had set up bore well in the village to provide water to everyone.
However, Shyam Bai, one of the residents of the village, said that if people said no when they were asked if they voted for the BJP ‘they switch off the motor and drive us away’.
Another resident said following the voting ‘they have completely stopped running the bore’.
Other residents raised similar complaints without naming the BJP, saying that they were told water would not be given they had not voted for ‘the flower’, BJP’s symbol.
The Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala hit out at the BJP on X saying that ‘Hidden in the noise of fake claims and lies of BJP's double-engine...’
The voting in Madhya Pradesh was on November 17 with the BJP and Congress taking on each other and the results will come out on December 3.