New Delhi: Guna Lok Sabha member KP Singh Yadav on Saturday performed an ‘unscheduled’ inauguration of a passport workplace throughout its inspection, a transfer Congress dubbed the politics of “one-upmanship” within the BJP within the residence floor of Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Yadav claimed he inaugurated the passport workplace on the auspicious day of Ravidas Jayanti forward of the imposition of the mannequin code for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Nevertheless, an area Posts Division official claimed the formal inauguration was tentatively scheduled within the first week of March and authorities had requested him to start out preparations.
Notably, Yadav had defeated Scindia from the Guna constituency within the 2019 elections when the latter was in Congress.
Scindia crossed over to the BJP in March 2020. He’s at the moment a Rajya Sabha MP.
Yadav, additionally a former Congressman, was a supporter of Scindia earlier than becoming a member of BJP within the run-up to the final LS elections.
On Saturday, Yadav reached the Passport Sewa Kendra (PSK), situated on the premises of the principle publish workplace in Guna, for inspection and ‘inaugurated’ it.
Queried by reporters later in regards to the unscheduled inauguration, Yadav stated it was overdue.
“I inaugurated the passport workplace at the moment on the auspicious event of Ravidas Jayanti. About 700 passports have been made by way of this workplace thus far,” the MP stated.
He stated native persons are proud of this facility.
“I needed this passport workplace to be inaugurated by any Union minister. I needed to inaugurate it earlier than the meeting elections final 12 months but it surely was not potential. I inaugurated it because the mannequin code of conduct for Lok Sabha elections could possibly be imposed quickly,” he stated.
Yadav claimed he had already spoken to larger authorities and so they have been “positively inclined” in direction of the inauguration of the passport workplace at his arms.
However, Guna’s Major Publish Workplace superintendent Vinay Shrivastava stated he was knowledgeable that the Guna MP was paying a proper go to to the passport workplace on Saturday.
“I’ve come to obtain him. I’ve no info (in regards to the inauguration) and neither can I say something on this challenge,” he informed reporters.
Shrivastava, nevertheless, informed PTI over the telephone that senior authorities had earlier conveyed to him to schedule inaugural preparations tentatively for the primary week of March.
POPSK was arrange on the initiative of Scindia, who was knowledgeable about organising the workplace in Guna by the Minister for Overseas Affairs S Jaishankar in a letter in March final 12 months, sources claimed.
Taking potshots at BJP, state Congress media cell chairman KK Mishra stated KP Singh, who received the elections by over 1 lakh votes, has all rights to inaugurate a Central institution like a passport workplace.
“That is the sport of one-upmanship occurring within the ruling social gathering,” he stated.
However, state BJP secretary Rajnish Agrawal stated the matter isn’t associated to the social gathering and solely the officers involved can reply.
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