'Social media exaggerating': Min downplays highway showdown with BJP MLA in Mahoba

India, Feb. 1 -- {Mahoba fiasco}

'No issue between us': Min downplays highway standoff with BJP MLA

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JHANSI/KANPUR A day after BJP MLA Brijbhushan Singh Rajput stopped his convoy on a highway to protest water scheme lapses, Jal Shakti Minister Swatantra Dev Singh on Saturday blamed social media for exaggerating the confrontation, insisting there was no real dispute between them.

Rajput and his supporters had blocked Singh's convoy on Mahoba district's Sagar-Kanpur highway on Friday to raise concerns about lapses in the Jal Jeevan Mission implementation and the failure to restore roads after laying pipelines.

"We are all here to serve the public. The local MLA came with the problems of the loca...