Indore water contamination: Cong MLAs protest with bottles of ‘contaminated’ water in MP Assembly complex

Congress legislators staged a protestation carrying bottles of 'contaminated' h2o connected the premises of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026), the 2nd time of the Budget session, implicit the caller deaths owed to h2o contamination successful Indore.

Congress MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition Umang Singhar, held a symbolic protestation successful beforehand of the Mahatma Gandhi statue, holding bottles of contaminated h2o and placards, and raised slogans demanding justness for the affected families.

Speaking to reporters, Mr. Singhar claimed that 35 radical died owed to contaminated h2o successful the Bhagirathpura country of Indore, and accused the authorities of trying to shirk its responsibility.

He besides demanded that State Urban Development and Housing Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, who represents the Indore-1 Assembly conception that includes Bhagirathpura, should instantly resign connected motivation grounds and sought strict enactment against blameworthy officials.

The Congress person said that the proviso of contaminated h2o to the nationalist passim the State is simply a substance of sedate interest and demanded factual and effectual steps to supply cleanable drinking h2o to people.

While the governor's code made claims astir cleanable water, the crushed world is different, helium alleged.

Clean h2o is simply a cardinal close of the public, arsenic not everyone tin spend costly (RO) water, helium said.

Mr. Singhar said that contempt respective deaths, the authorities has avoided a treatment connected this contented successful the Assembly, which is contrary to antiauthoritarian values.

The government, successful its 'death audit’ study to the MP High Court, has stated that 16 radical person died successful the Bhagirathpura country of Indore owed to the outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea caused by contaminated drinking h2o successful December 2025.

Locals have, however, claimed 35 deaths.

A one-member committee of Justice Sushil Kumar Gupta, a erstwhile justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, is conducting a judicial enquiry into the calamity arsenic directed by the HC.

The State authorities has provided fiscal assistance of ₹2 lakh each to families of much than 20 people.

Officials assertion immoderate of these radical died from different illnesses and causes, but fiscal assistance was provided to the families of each the deceased connected humanitarian grounds.