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A sub-divisional magistrate successful Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas territory was suspended connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) for allegedly citing Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya’s arguable remark and the Congress’ allegations successful an authoritative bid amid the Indore h2o contamination crisis, officials said.
They said Ujjain Division Revenue Commissioner Ashish Singh suspended the SDM connected charges of superior negligence, indifference and irregularities successful the discharge of authoritative duties.
The officials said that the SDM had issued an bid connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) to deploy subordinate gross staffers to support instrumentality and bid successful presumption of a Congress protestation successful Dewas connected Sunday (January 4, 2026).
“However, the wording of a information of the Congress memorandum was copied verbatim successful the SDM’s bid issued for authoritative purposes. This amounts to superior negligence,” a elder authoritative told PTI.
The Congress memorandum had targeted the BJP authorities successful the State implicit the Indore drinking h2o situation and said Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya’s usage of the objectionable connection ‘ghanta’ successful effect to a journalist’s question reflected “inhumanity and authoritarianism”.
The memorandum, citing instructions of State Congress president Jitu Patwari, said enactment workers would clasp ‘ghanta’ protests against this “inhuman behaviour” by ringing bells extracurricular the residences of BJP MPs and MLAs crossed the State.
The protestation was organised against deaths linked to contaminated drinking h2o successful Indore’s Bhagirathpura country and Mr. Vijayvargiya’s arguable remark to a TV writer who questioned him astir the tragedy.
Mr. Vijayvargiya, the State's Urban Development and Housing Minister, sparked a enactment connected the nighttime of December 31 by utilizing the connection ‘ghanta’ connected camera erstwhile asked astir the h2o contamination crisis. In communal parlance, the word is broadly understood to mean “nonsense”.
The medication has confirmed six deaths truthful acold owed to the diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated h2o successful the city. Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargav had said connected January 2 that helium had accusation astir 10 deaths linked to the outbreak.
However, section residents person claimed that 16 people, including a six-month-old infant, person died owed to the outbreak.
