Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Minister for food and civil supply Om Prakash Dhruve beats children in public. A video goes viral in which he is seen chasing the children and assaulting them during a marriage procession in which he participated in the town of Dindori on Tuesday.
According to a report of DC, the video showed minister dancing and throwing currency notes in the air. He started chasing and beating the children who gathered there to collect the notes. The act of Minister had enough to embarrass Shivraj Singh Chouhan government.
While the minister was dancing a little boy eyeing a currency note tried to take it. Om Prakash Dhurve immediately lost his cool and started beating the boy and chasing him out of the crowd.
Not just this, he saw two more children at another end of the crowd and asked one of his men to push them out too. Thereafter, the minister returned to his spot and started dancing to the music. His supporters now showered currency notes on him.
After his merciless attacks on children, he fled and was not available to comment on the scene.
In another such incident, minister for agriculture Gauri Shankar Bisen of Shivraj Singh Chauhan government openly threatens officials, another minister is intimidating forest officers, two years ago Minister for PHE Kusum Singh Mehdele kicked a handicap poor boy because he asked her for some alms and now Om Prakash Dhurve is beating a deprived, underprivileged boy, said state Congress chief spokesman KK Mishra.
“It’s time for chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to clarify his government and ministers’ attitude towards the poor people of this state,” he added.