Pratapgarh. Congress leaders and workers staged a strong protest on Wednesday, alleging corruption and chaos in the medical college. Under the leadership of District Congress Committee President Dr. Neeraj Tripathi Advocate, hundreds of workers marched on foot from the Congress office Indira Bhawan, drenched in heavy rain, and reached the Collectorate complex via Ambedkar Square. During this, the entire campus echoed with the slogans of “Same story of Medical College, dishonesty from top to bottom” and “Now we will not tolerate atrocities, stop this corruption”.
Today at 1 pm on Wednesday, the Congress delegation handed over a 23-point demand letter to the District Magistrate and demanded a high-level and vigilance investigation into the entire matter and registration of an FIR. Congress District President Dr. Neeraj Tripathi alleged that on June 22, only 2 emergency recovery trolleys were ordered for Rs 8 lakh on the GeM portal under No.GEMC-511687764102923. For an event on 15th July, 10 ACs of 2 Ton were taken on rent for about Rs 9 lakh 98 thousand 500 for a day, the daily rent of which is shown as Rs 1 lakh.
Similarly, government money was wasted by ordering unnecessary stock of 4 lakh gloves and fake diesel worth Rs 12 lakh was filled in 3 months in the name of a hearse, while big questions are being raised on the purchase of Rs 6 lakh under the guise of couriering 1 lakh kg on GeM. Mahila Congress President Saroj Kashyap said that the tender for food has been renewed even after the tenure of Lucknow's Green Food Company has ended.
Of the 19 ventilator beds found during the Corona period, all are missing, while the 100-bed critical care unit, which was being built at a cost of Rs 24.50 crore, which was to be completed by 19 December 2025, is still incomplete even after 9 months. It is alleged that CMS leaves the district headquarters every day at 5 pm and goes to Prayagraj. Emergency doctors do not sit regularly.
The DM should conduct a vigilance inquiry into the entire matter of irregularities and corruption in the medical college and register a report against the culprits and take strict action. He has warned that if the demands are not met within a week, the Congress will start a big movement in a systematic manner from the streets to the House.
On this occasion, mainly Treasurer Vedant Tiwari, City President Mohammad Ishtiaq, Mahendra Shukla, Ravi Bhushan Sinha, Masoom Haider, Vijay Pratap Tripathi, Indranand Tiwari, Harishchandra Saroj, Mohd. Huzaif, Sunita Singh Patel, Anjali Upadhyay, Shahida Khatoon, Meera Devi Bhawani Shankar Dubey, Suresh Kumar Saroj, Rajendra Verma, Baijnath Yadav, Subhash Tiwari, Umesh Tiwari, Hazarilal Verma, Yash Dwivedi, Ashok Singh, Shahzad Salmani, Alok Singh, Saharsh Singh, Prateek Singh Omprakash Saroj, Aashiq Ali, Riyaz Sultan, Mohammad Dilshad, Mohammad Wasim, Ravindra Mishra, Monu Mishra, Vikas Shukla, Raju Khan, Dr. Sarvesh Shukla, Mahendra Mishra, Dharamraj Singh Mohd. Aslam Baba, Ritesh Saroj, Brijesh Saroj, Imran Khan, Radheshyam Dubey, Himanshu Gupta, Shahid Khan, Mohd. Iftikhar, Devmani Pandey, Noor Alam, Tripurari Nath, Ambika Prasad, Dr. Satish Shukla, Santosh Yadav, Prithvi Pal Gautam, Mohd. Hundreds of workers including Imran Advocate, Subhash Tiwari, Umesh Tiwari, Narendra Shukla, Mohammad Shabbir, Mohammad Idrisi, Arbaaz Alam, Imran Khan, Shailesh Pandey were present.