Bhopal: Eight months after she resigned from the publish of sub-divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) of Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district, hoping to contest the state meeting elections, Nisha Bangre is going through disappointment on each entrance.
She fought with the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP authorities in court docket to get her resignation accepted, however did not get a ballot ticket from the Congress “as was promised”.
She was later accommodated as a “mahamantri” within the state Congress unit — solely to lose the publish after new celebration president Jitu Patwari took over.
“Anyay toh Congress aur BJP dono ne kiya hai. Ab Congress se toh nyay ki umeed nahin hai, par agar BJP nyay karna chahe toh service mein wapas le sakti hai (both the Congress and BJP have done injustice. I don’t hope to get justice from the Congress now, but if the BJP wants, it can take me back in service),” she instructed ThePrint Sunday.
Speaking about her Lok Sabha ballot prospects, she added: “Before the assembly elections, I was assured by then (Congress) state in-charge Randeep Surjewalaji that I will be considered for the Lok Sabha polls from SC reserved seats such as Tikamgarh or Bhind. But as the election is nearing, there has been no communication of any possible candidature from these seats from the party.”
“And now, Surjewalaji has been replaced by Bhanwar Jitendra Singh as state in-charge,” rued Bangre, who’s nowadays serving to civil service aspirants crack the aggressive examination.
A 2017-batch state civil service officer, Bangre had managed to get her resignation accepted by the Chouhan authorities final October, after a four-month battle and simply forward of the November state elections.
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Bangre’s battle
In response to Bangre, it was in 2022 that she was first contacted by the workplace of senior Congress chief Kamal Nath, who was then serving because the Madhya Pradesh Congress chief, to debate her attainable candidature from Betul district’s Amla seat — the place Bangre was posted as sub-divisional Justice of the Peace in 2018.
She mentioned that quickly after discussions began, the Madhya Pradesh authorities transferred her from Bhopal to Chhatarpur district in November 2022.
Whereas it was simpler to make the four-hour journey to Betul from Bhopal, Bangre mentioned, the brand new posting in Chhatarpur elevated the journey time to over 10 hours.
5 months earlier than the state meeting elections scheduled for November 2023, Bangre resigned from her publish, on 22 June, reportedly stating that she was denied permission to attend an occasion, the Worldwide All Faith Peace Convention.
With no readability over the acceptance of her resignation from the state’s technology administration division, Bangre approached the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom, which gave the state authorities a month’s time to resolve on the matter.
Advocate Vivek Tankha, who was then representing Bangre, had instructed The Print: “The government is not accepting her resignation citing a pending departmental inquiry about the fact that Nisha, while on childcare leave, sought permission to attend an all-religion programme at her house, violating the code of conduct governing state officials.”
Tankha had pleaded that “we accept the charges, and that the government should accept the resignation”.
On 28 September, she set out on a ‘padyatra‘ from Amla to the chief minister’s home in Bhopal to push for her case. She was, nevertheless, stopped and arrested and launched the next morning after spending an evening in jail.
After the state failed to simply accept her resignation even 30 days later, Bangre moved the court docket as soon as once more, which gave the state authorities one other 10 days to finish the pending departmental inquiry and settle for Bangre’s resignation.
Because the excessive court docket allowed the state authorities to finish the inquiry, Bangre moved the Supreme Courtroom, which requested her to plead earlier than the excessive court docket with an utility citing the rationale for her urgency.
The Congress, regardless of asserting candidates for 229 of the 230 meeting seats, had up to now held again on declaring the candidate for Amla seat.
On 20 October final yr, the Chouhan authorities knowledgeable the court docket that it might resolve on Bangre’s resignation by Monday (23 October).
On 23 October, as Bangre was awaiting communication about her resignation being accepted, the Congress declared Manoj Malve as its candidate from Amla. Malve had been the Congress candidate from the seat in 2018 too, however had misplaced to BJP’s Yogesh Pandagre by round 20,000 votes.
An agitated Bangre instructed the media that she would contest the meeting elections regardless of the celebration. She, nevertheless, selected in any other case.
Kamal Nath had then referred to Bangre throughout a rally in Chhindwara and acknowledged: “You will become an example. No problem that you are not contesting the polls. But I need your services in Madhya Pradesh.”
Subsequently, Bangre was made a mahamantri within the celebration and in addition included amongst its star campaigners. However even that was short-lived.
A month later, because the Congress misplaced the meeting elections and was lowered to 66 seats, Kamal Nath made approach for Jitu Patwari as new state unit chief.
Quickly after taking on, Patwari dissolved all earlier appointments of celebration functionaries within the state. New members are but to be appointed.
Bangre instructed ThePrint that she has as soon as once more been assured that she might be given a distinguished place, as soon as the office-bearers are determined.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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