Speaker pulls up Cong MLA for bringing contaminated water in bottle to meeting | Ahmedabad Information

Gandhinagar: Gujarat meeting speaker Shankar Chaudhary censured Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar throughout query hour on Friday for displaying a bottle that he claimed contained contaminated water. The incident befell after Congress legislative occasion chief Tushar Chaudhary sought particulars from govt relating to alleged chemical contamination of groundwater across the waste processing web site of Maurya Enviro Tasks at Jamiyatpura in Mahisagar district.

Responding, MoS forests and atmosphere Pravin Mali stated that 5 complaints had been obtained in 2024 and 2025 relating to alleged contamination of wells within the surrounding areas. He added that evaluation of the samples didn’t point out any widespread or everlasting contamination of groundwater high quality. Whilst Impartial MLA Dhavalsinh Zala intervened, stating native residents made quite a few complaints to authorities about air pollution attributable to the positioning, Parmar stood up and took out a small bottle full of a brown liquid. He confirmed it to the speaker, claiming it contained water collected from a nicely close to the dumping web site just a few days in the past. He stated his intention was to display the bottom actuality within the affected villages. The act triggered sturdy objection from the speaker, who expressed displeasure over the show of the bottle contained in the Home. In his ruling, Chaudhary requested Parmar to chorus from such acts sooner or later and requested sergeants to take the bottle away.