Varanasi,

11 July (HS): In Prime Minister Narendra

Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi, on Thursday evening, Congress took

out a 'Pol-Khol Padyatra' to highlight the ground level problems of the city.

During this, the government was cornered over the problems of waterlogging,

broken roads and affected shopkeepers. An FIR was lodged late night at Sigra

police station against 60 workers including Congress state president Ajay Rai

on the charge of obstructing traffic on the main road during the padyatra.

This

case has been registered on the complaint of Kashi Vidyapeeth outpost in-charge

Vikas Shandilya. The leaders against whom the FIR has been registered include

Congress district president Rajeshwar Patel, Raghavendra Choubey, Dharmendra

Tiwari, Fasahat Hussain, Pramod Pandey, Gulshan Ali, Shatnam Singh, Ashok

Singh, Akeel Ansari and 50 unknown workers.

State

President Ajay Rai said that the development being shown in Kashi is completely

superficial and fake. Taking the BJP government to task, he said, The

double engine government has brought Kashi on the path of destruction. The

Modi-Yogi government should stop making false claims of development. He

said that traders were displaced in the name of the night market project and

ropeway construction. The government is neither aware of the drains nor the

condition of the roads. Normal life is in disarray from Church to Godaulia. The

livelihood of shopkeepers has been snatched away. After the FIR was registered,

Congress leaders accused the administration of bias and protested. They called

it a conspiracy to suppress the voice of the people.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi