Not allowed to meet PM, exasperated Kashi Kongman hands over memo to admin – Hindustan Times

VARANASI Congressmen here on Sunday said they were not allowed to meet Varanasi MP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in the city to brief him on five important Kashi issues. In protest against this, the Congressmen staged a Dharna.

Congress city unit president Raghavendra Chaubey said the party delegation has sought permission from the local administration to meet PM Modi to brief him on five issues. But the administration forcefully and unethically stopped the party workers in the office of the Congress Party in Maidagin. Congressmen opposed this action and later garlanded the statue of late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Maidagin Junction.

A memorandum addressed to PM Modi containing the issues they wanted to tell him about was handed over to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kotwali/ACP Dashashwamedh, Pragya Pathak.

Shobey criticized the fact that the party delegation was not allowed to meet the MP from Kashi. He demanded that UP Minister Dinesh Partap Singh should be sacked over Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s obscene comment.

“Sigra Stadium, Kashi’s legacy, is named after late Sampurnanand. His change is against Kashi’s dignity. Hence, the stadium should be named after Sampurnanand only,” he insisted.

Shri Kashi Vishwanath’s prasad should be done by a women’s self-help group and not by Amul, the Congressmen demanded.