The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will soon launch agitations on local issues in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh, its State unit president Satish Jaggi said.
Holding a meeting of party leaders and workers at his residence here in Bagbahara on Sunday, Jaggi who contested the poll from Khallari assembly seat and lost, said his party will carry out different activities including demonstrations and protests to win the confidence of people. Jaggi said he is grateful to the people of Khallari as the NCP has secured 6.2 per cent votes in the constituency. He said it was clear that the party has managed to build a voter base of ten thousand people in the seat.
Accepting the defeat, he said it was lack of our efforts that we could not inform the people about the good work NCP has done. He said efforts would be made to rectify the mistakes in the coming days. In the meeting it was decide that Jaggi will lead agitations planned in the coming days on the problems related to irrigations, roads and unemployment of teachers.
The party will also raise several other issues. Be it demand seeking remunerative price for the farmers on their products and employments to women. The other local senior leaders of the party who attended the meeting include Ashok Agrawal, Girish Patel, Umesh Kalia, Rupesh Thakur, Kamal Agrawal, Saurabh Bagga, lucky Yadav, Vikky Yadav, Debraj Thakur, Razak Khan and Salim Khan.