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An earthmover clears the filth in front of the Aadhaar enrolment centre at Premnagar on Friday. (Animesh Sengupta)
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Muck dumped in front of a building housing an Aadhaar enrolment centre in Telco kept applicants away for more than three hours on Friday, raising stink of political rivalry a day after BJP and JVM supporters clashed over “politicising” the administrative drive.
Work on enrolment of applicants was to start as usual at 10am, but instead it began at 1pm, as none could enter the passage leading to the building at Premnagar, considered a BJP domain. Work started amid tension between supporters of BJP and JVM after local residents cleared the filth.
“I came here at 10.30am to submit my application for an Aadhaar card, only to find that there was no way to enter the building. Muck, which seemed to have been dumped with the help of a heavy vehicle, greeted me,” said Heera Lal, a resident of Laxminagar.
Lal who is physically challenged, told The Telegraph he preferred to wait, unlike others, as he had taken great pains to walk up to the centre.
On Thursday, some BJP workers had some JVM partymen remove their party’s flag near the enrolment centre, alleging that the latter were distributing Aadhaar forms with political pamphlets.
But JVM’s district committee spokesperson C.H. Ram Murthy said, “The pamphlets that we had attached with the Aadhaar forms were meant to make people aware about the need to elect a right person to power. This was just an attempt to create awareness. But BJP workers vandalised our office, which is close to the enrolment centre.”
He said they were giving pamphlets only to those who were turning up at the JVM office for obtaining address proofs and other documents required for Aadhaar card.
The BJP’s state committee member, Rambabu Tiwary, on the other hand, denied dumping muck in front of the centre. “It must be the handiwork of JVM supporters who want to defame us,” he claimed.
Dhalbhum SDO Subodh Prasad expressed ignorance about the incident. However, he said he was keeping an eye so that there was no law and order problem.
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