Employees upset with BJP leaders scolding them

Jodhpur: Jodhpur discom employees are angry after BJP’s Shergarh MLA Babu Singh Rathore while addressing the public during Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra in Bawarli gram panchayat in Shergarh on Sunday lost his cool at complaints pertaining to water and electricity supply, summoned a junior engineer and warned him that if the public complaints were not resolved, he himself would make him stand amid the public and smear his face black.
Addressing the officials present in the event, he further warned them to mend their ways or face not only suspension but even termination from services. He told them that they were public servants and should behave in that manner.
The public affront by Rathore has offended the discom employees. A senior official of Jodhpur discom, requesting anonymity, said, “The MLA is also a public servant. Being an MLA does not give him the right to insult government employees in public. There is a proper way to express anger, if any employee or official is negligent.”
He added that such behaviour will lower the morale of the employees.
A few days back, BJP candidate from Sardarpura, Mahendra Singh Rathore, who lost to Ashok Gehlot, had also allegedly threatened a zonal chief engineer of the discom over the phone.
“Ye jo Congress rupi rui aapne kanon main daal rakhi hain na, usko nikal lena (Just take that cotton out which you have plugged your ears with in the name of Congrees)”, were the words of Rathore to the engineer. Rathore had directed him to save his phone number and pick not only his call but of every party worker from Sardarpura. He had also accused him of purposefully cutting off the electricity supply to temples and events of religious sermons to appease a certain community.
When contacted by TOI for his comments, Mahendra Rathore said that there were so many issues that people were facing but officials do not pick up their phones. “We are bringing this to their notice. They will have to listen and act,” Rathore said.
MLA Babu Singh Rathore told TOI said that he had scolded a PHED engineer and not a discom engineer. “They do not work, do not come to the field. We all are public servants and get salaries,” he said.