Call it AAP effect. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) style of politics has compelled the Ministers and other elected representatives of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Government in Madhya Pradesh to act as common people.
Right from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his Cabinet colleagues, mayors and other elected representatives have gone AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal way and are on the roads to resolve public issues. All came to the streets with officials and listened peoples’ woes and gave instant instructions to the officials concerned to resolve them.
So much is the effect or the fear of growing popularity of the AAP that legislators, Mayors and other people’s representatives have started making spot inspections so that many of the problems could be fixed on the spot.
After the surprise inspections of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, his cabinet colleagues have started competition of making surprise checks of their respective departments with each other. Following footsteps of Delhi’s Kejriwal Government, the Ministers have started making surprise checks of their respective departments for not getting appraised with the ground reality but are also taking steps to resolve the problems faced by the people.
Till now the surprise checks were made by Chief Minister Chouhan and Home Minister Babulal Gaur but now many of the Ministers are reaching the roads for reality check. The ministers that after Chouhan and Gaur visited their respective department’s offices include Health Minister Narottam Mishra, Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh, Rampal Singh, Dipak Joshi, Antar Singh Arya, lal Singh Arya, Gaurishankar Shejwar, Yashodhara Raje Scindia and Maya Singh. Besides them some other ministers have also done surprise checks of the departments they are holding charge of.
Senior Minister lal Singh Arya has gone a step forward by issuing instructions to the officials for giving him weekly report of the 100 days work plan of the departments he is holding besides holding surprise checks of the departments.
After Ministers, Bhopal Mayor Krishna Gaur also came down on the roads with her contingent of Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials and listened problems of people and issued instant instructions to resolve them. BJP MlA from Huzur ASssembly constituency of the State capital Rameshwar Sharma also took surprise checks in his area.