The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), State unit held a rally followed by a dharna at lower PMG Square here on Thursday protesting the “defective” policies and “non-implementation” of development works by the State Government as well as by the Centre.
The rally under the leadership of BSP Odisha in-charge and former Minister Dharamveer Singh Ashok and State president Tankadhar Bag was held from the Ram Mandir Square to the lower PMG.
Party members slammed both the State and Union Governments for harming the interests of dalits, adivasis and OBC people, religious minority communities, labourers, farmers, etc. They raised issues like disinvestments in PSUs, unemployment and migration.
later, a team of BSP leaders submitted a 17-point charter of demands to Governor SC Jamir. The demands included no implementation of the land Grab Bill for the landless people and provision of land patta and farmland to them, reservation in promotion in Government jobs, employment to youths migrating as labourers and to skilled and under-skilled unemployed people in the State, immediate rehabilitation of slum families, whose houses have been demolished, etc. It also demanded Government jobs and financial incentives to family members of the farmers who have committed suicides due to crop loss and loan burden.