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Digvijay leads protest against power crisis

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, JAN. 10. Congress general secretary and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh led a massive road blockade here today to protest against "failure" of the Bharatiya Janata Party Government on all

fronts.

Mr. Singh, who arrived here this morning, sat on a dharna near the Anand Nagar check post on Raisen Road. He was joined by the PCC president, Subhash Yadav, former State Minister Rajkumar Patel, former Bhopal Mayor Vibha Patel and several other prominent Congressmen, including Mahavir Prasad Vashishta, Govind Goyal and Mahendra Pratap Singh Bundela.

Mr. Singh told newspersons that the Congress struggle was mainly against the acute power crisis as well as

bad roads and the never ending problems of the State farmers. In order to build up pressure on the State Government on all these fronts, the Congress had called for a State-wide road blockade today, he added.

Mr. Singh said that it had been his repeated assertion that the power situation in the State would get perfectly streamlined by 2007 and now those heading the State BJP Government were also taking that stand. In the meanwhile, ever since the BJP came to power, the situation has worsened and nothing had been done to tide over the power crisis.

To a pointed query regarding the State Chief Minister, Babulal Gaur, Mr. Singh said that he had never said that he was a good Chief Minister. In fact, what had earlier been stated by him was that Mr. Gaur was performing better than his predecessor, Uma Bharti, he added.

The leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, Jamuna Devi, led the road blockade at Habibganj. The State Congress general secretary, Manak Agrawal, and former MLA from Bhopal South, P.C. Sharma, sat on dharna with her.

Similarly, the former State Minister, Arif Aqueel, led the party protest by blocking traffic on Berasia road while the Bhopal Mayor, Sunil Sood, was in the forefront blocking traffic near the busy Lal Ghati square that links the State Capital with Indore and Gwalior.

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