Both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have come out in support of the 18,000 families displaced by the recent gate closure of Sardar Sarovar Dam on river Narmada.
The Congress has decided to raise the issue both in Madhya Pradesh assembly and in Parliament. AAP too will raise the matter in lok Sabha.
Congress leader of opposition in assembly Ajay Singh said, his party is going to take to the task the MP Government in the House for failing to rehabilitate 18,000 families.
“The State Government has asked these oustees to vacate the submergence area of the dam by July 31. We are planning to bring an adjournment motion on the issue in the House,” he added.
“Our leader and party chief in lok Sabha, Jyotiraditya Scindia will raise the issue in parliament,” State Congress spokesman Pankaj Chaturvedi said.
“The affected people are on tenterhooks given that the water level in the dam was swelling due to the rains. The State Government should take immediate steps to save precious lives,”he added.
MP AAP convenor Alok Agarwal said that their MP Bhagwant Mann is going to raise the oustees’ issue in the Parliament.
He said that 18,000 families in MP’s Alirajpur, Barwani, Dhar and Khargone districts are on the verge of drowning following the closure of the gates of Sardar Sarovar dam last month.