Fearing protests, over eight Panchayat Samiti workers of Parbhani district on December 28 wrote to the district collector, highlighting that they’ve been getting cellphone calls from villagers asking them the explanation behind writing “Modi Sarkar” on the chariot and questioning if they’re “campaigning for Modi”. The workers had requested police safety from the collector throughout the yatra.

Rajvaibhav Shobha Ramchandra, a 30-year previous Ambedkarite activist from Sonyachi Shiroli village who works with a number of social organisations to unfold the constitutional consciousness, determined to boost his objection in a peaceable and constitutional method. “I stood in front of the Grampanchayat and asked the motive behind the chariot and the yatra,” Rajvaibhav informed The Indian Express.

On being informed that the yatra is supposed to unfold consciousness about central authorities’s schemes, Rajvaibhav requested, “If the schemes are from the government of India, then why is it that the chariot has ‘Modi government’s guarantee’ written on it?”

“The Constitution says, ‘India, that is Bharat’. It could either be ‘Bharat Sarkar’ or ‘Government of India’. If a person is replacing country’s name, then it is the violation of constitutional principle of sovereignty. It is as good as a treason,” he mentioned. As the dialogue progressed, he was joined by villagers who too stood in his help. He later realised that the one who was debating with him was not a authorities worker, however a functionary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“We are not against government schemes, but if a political party like BJP is going to use the state’s money by using a chariot coloured like party’s flag ahead of general elections, then we have to oppose it,” he mentioned.

Hamara Sankalp Viksit Bharat is a nationwide marketing campaign to boost consciousness by means of outreach actions to attain saturation of schemes of presidency of India throughout the nation masking all Gram Panchayats, Nagar Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies.

Rajvaibhav’s speech and his dialogue with officers went viral on social media, triggering sturdy reactions and shortly movies of comparable actions began pouring in.

In Buldhana district’s Palshi Jhashi village of Sangrampur tehsil, former sarpanch Abhaysinh Marode was served a discover below part 149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) by native police, warning him to not intervene at a time when chariot below the Vikasit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is travelling within the tehsil.

“I have no objection against Narendra Modi. After all, he is our country’s Prime Minister. But shouldn’t we highlight the absolute failures of Central government’s schemes? When we did that police warned us not to interfere. I had a detailed discussion saying I am merely asking questions on doubling farmer’s income, hunger index, growing expenditure of farmers. Shouldn’t we get answers,” mentioned Marode, who can also be the director on the Sangrampur Agriculture Produce Market Committee.

The route of the chariot was later modified after Marode persevered along with his questioning, joined by villagers and buddies. On December 30, he was slapped with a discover below part 149. “I highlighted that it is not Modi Sarkar. It should be Bharat Sarkar,” mentioned Marode.

Similar peaceable questioning and protest movies had been additionally seen in Ahmadnagar, Nasik, Satara, Jalna, Parbhani, Akola, Hingoli, Nanded, Ratnagiri and Buldhana districts the place villagers are asking workers accompanying the chariot numerous questions on implementation of the schemes in addition to use of phrase Modi Sarkar.

In Parbhani, which can also be one of many core areas of protests by Maratha neighborhood searching for reservation below the management of social activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, the workers wrote to the collector searching for police safety on December 28. The letter from eight workers requested to not deploy them on yatra responsibility.

Parbhani district collector Raghunath Gawde accepted that some workers wrote the letter in “haste”. “Yes, there was a letter. They should have waited for a while before writing it. We spoke to them, understood the problem and it was solved,” he mentioned.

Gawde mentioned that there have been cases of protest by villagers. “But we are communicating with them. We are telling them that the schemes are meant for their own good. After our intervention and communication, the villagers are allowing us to move forward without any problem,” he mentioned, including that wherever obligatory, the district administration is offering police safety to the chariot.

In Satara’s Tardap village of Phaltan tehsil, Jai Mane and 4 others countered the federal government workers and requested them why the chariot has no Tricolour whether it is despatched by the Central authorities. “We asked ‘why have you mentioned Modi government’s guarantee and not of Indian government’. We received to answer,” Mane, who works at an industrial unit, mentioned.

Mane mentioned that his village is understood for sending many males to the military. “The villagers soon joined us who sided with us. We did not raise our voice not threatened anyone. We simply put forward our view and raised questions,” he mentioned.

Rajvaibhav mentioned that after his video went viral, he began receiving calls from completely different components of the state asking how ought to they sort out the chariot. “We had not even asked questions about success of central schemes. But now people are asking that as well,” he claimed. Rajvaibhav added that he together with others are planning to method the courtroom in opposition to the usage of phrase ‘Modi Sarkar’ and we can be asking the query by means of that petition, as to what’s the actual identify of the federal government.”