Rahul Gandhi attacks MP govt over Sheopur mid-day meal outrage

Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday slammed the Madhya Pradesh BJP government led by CM Dr Mohan Yadav over the alleged incident of young children being served mid-day meals on pieces of waste papers instead of plates or any other utensils at a school in Vijaypur in the Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh.

Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X that the BJP state government had even stolen the plates of students. The Congress leader said he was heartbroken to see the video of the incident. He charged that the same children carried the nation’s future on their shoulders, yet were “not even getting a dignified plate”.

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He alleged that the BJP, which has been in power in MP for more than 20 years, had even “taken away the plates meant for children” and that its claims of development were “a deception”. Gandhi said chief ministers and prime ministers should feel ashamed if the country’s children and its future were being raised in such conditions.

Rahul Gandhi made the allegations a few hours before reaching Bhopal in the afternoon.

From here, he went to MP’s famous hill station, Pachmarhi, reaching there at around 3.30 pm to address the district presidents of the Congress in the party’s ongoing camp there under the ‘Sangathan Srajan Abhiyaan’ (Organization Rejuvenation Campaign) at Hotel Highland.

The Sangathan Srajan Abhiyaan aims to strengthen the party’s grassroots structure ahead of the 2028 state assembly polls.

Gandhi was given a rousing welcome on his arrival at Pachmarhi.

He is also scheduled to dine and interact with party presidents and leaders in Pachmarhi, and stay the night at the Ravishankar Bhavan, situated on a hill top in the picturesque tourist destination.

Rahul Gandhi will fly back to Bihar on Sunday to campaign for the second phase of the Assembly polls in that state scheduled on 11 November.