A total of 108 MPs, of whom 55 are from West Bengal alone, are yet to adopt a village under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojna (SAGY) even after nine months of its launch.
Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh has asked these MPs to associate with the “mainstream” and adopt a village even as he promised that the government would remove any bottlenecks encountered by them in this regard.
Around 108 MPs, who have not identified Gram Panchayats so far, have been asked to name the same without delay. Of these MPs, 55 belong to West Bengal alone while the remaining 53 are from the rest of India.
-Chaudhary Birender Singh, Rural Development Minister.
While Singh made it clear that the two BJP Lok Sabha MPs from West Bengal had already adopted a village each, he avoided a question seeking his opinion on whether he felt that the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state was playing politics over the matter.
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