Shameful act! Municipal staff ‘dumps elderly in Indore’

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi attacked the Madhya Pradesh government after video of Indore Municipal Corporation officials mistreating homeless people and pushing them in a truck went viral on social media.

According to the reports, the homeless people, including frail elderly, were being driven out of the city and dropped near a village in biting cold.

Soon after Priyanka Gandhi posted a tweet, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan swung into and suspended IMC deputy commissioner Pratap Solanki on charges of dereliction in duty. Apart from this, two members of the civic staff have been dismissed from service.

In a tweet, the chief minister said, "I have come to know of the inhuman behaviour of some officials of the Indore Municipal Corporation. The deputy commissioner of IMC and two civic staff have been suspended with immediate effect and the collector has been asked to take due care of the elderly. We will not tolerate mistreatment of the elderly under any circumstance."

In the video, the IMC's anti-encroachment squad can be seen transporting people, many of them weak and old with just rags and torn bags as possession, in a truck.