Farmers Movement Archive

Reach out to people, CM tells party workers ahead of polls

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asked the workers of the party to oversee whether the benefits of the much ambitious ‘Saat Sishchay’ (seven resolves) programme reached the beneficiaries in rural pockets of the state properly or not. Nitish issued the directives during an interaction with the party workers at the JD(U) office here. “Visit every household in your respective villages and get feedback from the residents whether tap water was being supplied to them on a regular basis. If somebody is still bereft of the facility, help them to get the supply connection installed immediately,” Guddu Singh, a party functionary from Saran district quoted Nitish as saying. Nitish, who is also the national president of JD(U), also asked the party workers to create awareness about 100% electricity connection given to rural households. “People should be made aware of the important achievements of the state government in the last 15 years,” another party worker Kiran Devi from Sitamarhi quoted the CM as saying. The CM also asked the party activists to make people aware of the benefits of the two farm bills passed by the Parliament a couple of days ago. Some workers also complained about the dilly dallying attitude of the circle officers and the block development officers (BDOs) in transferring Rs 1000 to the bank accounts of the people affected by floods. Such complaints were mostly received from Sitamarhi and Gopalganj districts. Nitish also spoke to around 175 prospective ticket seekers, mostly women, who had gathered at the office from different parts of the state. The national president also asked about the caste combination of electors in the constituency from where he/she wanted to contest. The ticket seekers had submitted their bio-data to the CM’s office. Some members of the State Women Commission, whose tenure is likely to come to an end and also some former ones had also reached the office to stake their candidature for tickets from JD(U) in the upcoming assembly polls. “Around 100 women had come to the office for the purpose,” a senior JD(U) functionary told this newspaper.

The Times of India

2020-09-23

Patna