Congress leader TS Singh Deo denied reports suggesting he has resigned from the party and confirmed that he has only stepped down from the minister post.
He explained that he couldn’t work according to public and that was the only reason he quit the post of state’s Panchayat and Rural Development Minister.
While speaking to media, Deo said, “I had started to feel that I couldn’t work according to public. So I decided to resign and I wrote to CM regarding this. I have not resigned from party, I have just stepped down from my post.”
Singh Deo has resigned as the Panchayat and Rural Development Minister but continues to hold health and family welfare, medical education, twenty-point implementation and commercial tax (GST) portfolios.
In his resignation letter to the chief minister, Singh Deo had claimed that not a single house was built for homeless people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana as funds were not allotted despite “repeated requests”.
In the four-page resignation letter, Singh Deo cited various reasons, saying he was unable to fulfil the department’s targets as per the vision of the Jan Ghoshna Patra (poll manifesto), given the “current scenario”.
Following Deo’s resignation, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel said he was yet to receive Singh Deo’s resignation from the panchayat department and that he learnt about the latter’s move through the media.
Meanwhile, a state minister told media after the Congress Legislature Party meeting yesterday that most of the legislators of Congress are hurt over the way Singh Deo has written a resignation letter to the chief minister.
Sources said 64 of the 71 MLAs of Congress attended the CLP meeting and TS Singh Deo was the notable absentee.
