MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav asks minister Sampatiya Uikey to meet affected Singrauli tribal family

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has expressed concern over the Singrauli incident in which Sandeep, a known mafia member, ran over a tribal farmer in Gannai village with a tractor.

He directed the responsible minister, Sampatiya Uikey, to visit the affected tribal family and assess the situation on the ground. He stressed that such incidents will not be tolerated in the state.

It is learnt that the victim, a tribal farmer, was trying to stop the tractor loaded with sand as it was driving through his farmland, when the irate tractor driver ran him over. The incident has acquired political significance, with the Congress party making it a major point of criticising the Mohan Yadav government, alleging that atrocities against tribals are on the rise.

The incident took place on Sunday when farmer Indrapal objected to the use of his paddy field as a passage for a tractor cart loaded with illegal sand from a local river. One of the tractor drivers allegedly ran him over with the tractor, killing him on the spot. After the incident, the accused driver fled the scene. Local villagers and relatives of the victim staged a protest against the incident.