Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CGPCC) president Nand Kumar Patel, while addressing a public meeting as a part of the party’s Parivartan Yatra at Batauli on Wednesday said that the state BJP government had sold the priceless land of farmers to the industrialists at throw away price.
The Parivartan Yatra Express of the State Congress, after completing its 864 km journey, reached Jashpur on the sixth day of the Yatra. According to a party press statement issued here on Wednesday, the Yatra, wherever it has gone, was warmly welcomed with the beating of drums.
The press statement said that the common man was enthusiastic in getting information about the schemes launched by the Union government for Chhattisgarh and about the corruption committed by the BJP government during the last nine years.
According to the press statement the Yatra that started from Ambikapur on Wednesday was stopped by the common man at Kareli, Raghunathpur, lamgaon, Karabel, Sodam and other villages under the Sitapur assembly constituency and along with the party leaders like CGPCC president Nand Kumar Patel, MlA TS Singhdeo, Amarjeet Bhagat, Ramdev Ram, Dr Premnath and others expressed their anger against the BJP government.
Addressing a public meeting at Batauli, CGPCC president Nand Kumar Patel alleged that the Dr Raman government was fully responsible for the abduction of Meena Khalkho and Ritik and the law and order situation of the state has been deteriorated. Such incidents had hanged the head of the residents of Chhattisgarh in shame, he added.
He said that by giving the priceless land of farmers to the industrialists at throw away price of Rs 200 per acre, the state BJP government had made it clear that it was against the well-being of the farmers.
The coordinator of the Parivartan Yatra and MlA TS Singhdeo said that the people of the state have lost their faith in the government, as it had throw them away from their houses with power of gun and lathi. No the people have maid up their mind for the change of the government, he added.
MlA Dr Premsai Singh, Surendra Sharma, Vivek Vajpayee, Kailash Gupta, KK Gupta, Ramesh Gupta, Balram Yadav, Phulsai lakda, Asha Tirki, Dilsai Karketta, Badruddin Iraqi, Ram Pratap Agrawal, Shivsingh Thakur, Ajay Shukla, Dr Shivnarayan Dwivedi, Rehan Khan and
others were present on the
occasion.