Dewas : The state Bhartiya Janata Party government is accused of malfunction in Haryali Mahotsav. The local Congress leader Manoj Rajani and Congress spokesperson Sudhir Sharma claimed a deeply rooted scam and demanded an investigation.
On July 31, the state government celebrated the Haryali mahotsav with aim of registering name in Guianese Book of World Record for maximum one day plantation.
Forest department and other institutions were assigned with the task of planting one crore plants on the day. The scheme was estimated worth Rs 100 crore for one day. Adding to the seven year old scheme on which the government has spent Rs 4,620 crore. Manoj Rajani and Sudhir Sharma informed that in entire Dewas district more than 2.11 lakhs plants were planted. Under the same scheme the city based Kushabhau stadium was claimed to be planted with 400 plants. According to both the leaders the place holds only 200 plants instead of 400 as claimed. They have written a later demanding an investigation of the fake records of the officials.