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The Budget Session of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly witnessed a stormy opening connected Monday (February 16, 2026) with the Opposition Congress MLAs creating an uproar during Governor Mangubhai Patel’s code implicit the caller diarrhoea outbreak successful Indore owed to government-supplied contaminated h2o that caused respective deaths.
Earlier, the day’s proceedings commenced with the singing of six stanzas of the nationalist opus Vande Matram successful accordance with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs’ January 28 directive.
On February 12, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav had welcomed the MHA’s determination and said that the State volition instrumentality the directive.
In the Assembly, the uproar began erstwhile Governor Patel was speaking astir the government’s h2o related initiatives and schemes, and said highlighted a task to divert the Kanh stream distant from the Shipra stream successful Ujjain to forestall the second from getting polluted.
During this, Leader of Opposition successful the Assembly and Congress MLA Umang Singhar roseate and alleged that respective important issues specified arsenic providing cleanable pat h2o to agrarian households and the h2o contamination deaths were ignored successful the Governor’s address.
Mr. Singhar said, “Honourable Governor, you skipped the leafage astir ‘nal jal’ (tap water). You mentioned Shipra but did not adjacent scope Indore wherever specified a immense calamity took spot successful Bhagirathpura.”
Addressing the Speaker, Mr. Singhar said that the Governor had “forgotten” astir the contented of cleanable water. He was joined by assorted different Congress MLAs.
The LoP’s objection led to a chaotic concern successful the House betwixt the Opposition and Treasury Benches adjacent arsenic Mr. Patel continued to work his address. While the Congress MLAs resorted to sloganeering against the authorities and objected to the Governor’s address, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs thumped benches successful enactment of it.
The Governor lone work prime parts from his implicit written code that is disposable connected the Assembly’s website. After Mr. Patel proceeded from the Assembly, Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar said that the remaining parts of his code volition beryllium considered arsenic read.
The calamity successful Indore’s Bhagirathpura country that began successful December, 2025, has truthful acold claimed 16 lives, arsenic per an audit report submitted by the authorities authorities successful the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The audit was conducted by a sheet of doctors from the State-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College, which termed causes of astatine slightest 8 deaths arsenic inconclusive.
However, section residents and media reports assertion that astatine slightest 35 radical person died successful the lower-middle people locality of Indore. The calamity was caused by contaminated h2o supplied by the BJP-ruled Indore Municipal Corporation and assorted authorities investigations person confirmed a polymicrobial corruption successful h2o and precocious levels of fecal coliform successful it owed to assorted sources, including mixing of sewage and drinking h2o successful the decades-old close-running underground pipelines.
The Budget Session volition proceed until March 6 and the Budget volition beryllium presented connected February 18.
