The ruling BJD on Wednesday launched a 10-day-long Jan Sampark Padayatra (JSP) from Bhubaneswar Central Assembly Constituency with a message from party supremo Naveen Patnaik to go to the people to hear their grievances for redressal and seek their blessings ahead of the 2014 Assembly and lok Sabha polls.
The JSP launched on the occasion of the Gandhi Jayanti simultaneously at panchayat, block and district levels by the BJD would also propagate the schemes and welfare programmes launched by the State Government during the last 13 years. The Padayatra would culminate on the birth anniversary of Jaya Prakash Narayan on October 11.
Flagging off the JSP at a State-level function organised by the Bhubaneswar District BJD mainly with the initiative of city Central MlA Bijay (Badal) Mohanty at Unit-6 here, Chief Minister Patnaik told party workers and leaders to reach out to the people at the grassroots level to make the people aware of the achievement of the State Government during the last 14 years and the pro-people and developmental policies and programmes of the State Government.
Besides, he also asked the party men to highlight the Central neglect towards Odisha during the mass contact campaign. Thanking the people of the State for their rousing support to the BJD in the recently concluded UlB elections, Patnaik asserted that during the last 14 years, the BJD Government had given a transparent administration.
Asserting that the people of the State have again reposed faith on the BJD for his Government’s developmental programme, Patnaik announced his commitment to provide all basic facilities to the people. The BJD Government has been with the people and would continue to remain with them, he pledged. The meeting was attended by among others Bhubaneswar MP Prasanna Patsani, three city MlAs Bijay Mohanty, Ashok Panda and Bhagirathi Badajena, Bhubaneswar Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena and Deputy Mayor Bharati Singh.