A day after securing bail following her arrest while trying to march to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s residence in Bhopal, Nisha Bangre, a Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur, said the judiciary was her last hope in having her resignation accepted and in contesting the upcoming Assembly elections. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has a scheduled a hearing for Thursday.
Ms. Bangre, 32, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste (SC), has been up in the arms against the BJP government in the State since June, when the government denied her permission to attend a Buddhist event in her hometown Amla of Betul district, and an all-religion prayer for the inauguration of her new home. Ms. Bangre resigned hours before the inauguration function and took part in it.
However, her resignation is yet to be accepted, diminishing her chance at entering the polls from her home constituency, Amla. She says that this forced her to start a march on foot, a ‘Nyay Yatra’, from Betul, on September 28. The march arrived in Bhopal on Monday and she was arrested after the group began proceeding towards the CM’s residence.
