Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Madhya Pradesh Congress Chief Jitu Patwari on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the sale and purchase of children from the state in Maharashtra due to poverty, citing media reports. Patwari sought that the central government should immediately summon the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and take strict action against the accused persons. A copy of the letter, which is with ANI, read, "Children are on sale in the Kanchanwadi area of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra.
The price is only Rs 25,000. All these children belong to tribal families who went to Maharashtra to work as labourers from the Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh. Tribal families from 11 villages of the Mundi area in Khandwa are moving to Maharashtra and Gujarat in search of earning money, but the financial shortage is such that they have to sell their children.
" आदरणीय प्रधानमंत्री जी, महाराष्ट्र के छत्रपति संभाजीनगर के कांचनवाड़ी क्षेत्र में बच्चे बिकाऊ हैं! कीमत भी केवल 25 हजार रुपए! ये सभी बच्चे मप्र के खंडवा जिले से मजदूरी करने महाराष्ट्र गए आदिवासी परिवारों के हैं। ज्यादा पैस�.