The Congress has threatened to launch a full-fledged agitation against poor cleanliness conditions in the city after an engineering student and an elderly woman died of jaundice here.
More than 50 Congress workers on Monday led by district rural Congress president Pankaj Sharma courted arrest in front of the Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) headquarters here to protest what they termed the civic body’s inability to ensure total cleanliness across the city.
According to the agitating Congress workers, the civic body has failed to ensure cleanliness in various parts of the city which had led to spread of Jaundice. The Congress activists shouted slogans against the RMC administration for its failure to arrest the outbreak of Jaundice in certain localities of the city .They also demanded action against the officials who failed to discharge their duties that led to outbreak of the disease.
According to Pankaj Sharma and urban district president Vikas Upadhayay, they would no longer tolerate the unhygienic conditions existing in the city’s various localities and threatened to intensify the agitation, in case the civic body failed to clean the piles of garbage in the city immediately.