While the BJD conducted its Jan Sampark Yatra here on Friday to speak about the apathy of the BJP Government at the Centre towards Odisha, the BJP took the path of a satyagraha to recount the failures of the ruling BJD in the State’s developmental front.
The BJP’s Khariar MlA Duryodhan Majhi and Nuapada MlA Basanta Panda along with other party leaders and workers staged Satyagraha at Khariar, Komna and Nuapada and highlighted the failures of the BJD government in addressing crucial problems relating to drinking water, health, irrigation and employment.
“The BJD has cheated the people in past fifteen years. It has not been able to tackle most crushing problems of drought, poverty and distress migration,” they said and presented a long list of the unfulfilled assurances by the ruling party in last 15 years.
“The Government had said it would generate employment, attract investment and establish small-scale industries, but where are those assurancesIJ” the leaders asked. Both the MlAs and other leaders like Sanjay Tiwari, Jadumani Panigrahi, Nilalohita Sing Deo, Siba Prasad Mund, Pruthwiraj Mohanty, Manohar Gahir, Chittaranjan Mahapata, lakshya Sandha and Amaresh Pattnaik spoke on the occasion.
The BJD members on the other hand tried to highlight the apathy of the Centre towards Odisha during their Jan Sampark Yatra. Minister Jogendra Behera joined the Yatra.
later, Behara also attended an official meeting to distributed Food Security cards to some beneficiaries of the Food Security scheme at Nuapada. “Out of 6,10,382 families of the district, 4,92,561 will be included under the scheme; but in the first phase, 1,27,947 families will be allotted ration cards,” said the Minister. District Collector Sidiq Alam, PD, DRDA Pradip Naik, Nuapada MlA Basant Panda, President of Zilla Parishad Puspanjali Pande were present.