Chhattisgarh’s Opposition Congress legislators wearing black shawls continued their protest by squatting in front of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Assembly premises on Tuesday while raising slogans to demand resignation of CM Raman Singh over deaths of 13 poor women at sterilisation camps in Bilaspur district last month.
leader of Opposition TS Singhdeo while talking to mediapersons during the sit-in by the Opposition members stated : ‘The protest will continue till CM resigns from his post. There is no question of calling off the agitation’.
later, the Congress members got up and called for their vehicles to leave the Chhattisgarh Assembly premises while deciding not to go back and participate in the House proceedings for the rest of the day.
Earlier, Singh while addressing the media persons inside the Assembly building had remarked: ‘They (Congress members) had a good opportunity for a week to point out shortcomings of the Government in the House. We were ready for discussions. There is time for them to hold protest outside the Assembly 365 days a year’.