Pradesh Congress Committee president Niranjan Patnaik on Tuesday stated here that his party would certainly return to power in the State in 2019 and waive farm loans and increase old age pensions from Rs 300 to 1,000 per month.
Patnaik said this at a public meeting held at Gumma in Gajapati district on the day. “No development has occurred in Odisha during the last 18 years. Farmers and people belonging to all sections of the society have been fed up with the Navee Patnaik Government. Congress would return to power in 2019,” said Patnaik.
He said the Congress after forming the Government would waive all farm loans and increase old age pension from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000 per month
Apart from Patnaik, AICC’s Odisha-in-charge Jitendra Singh, leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Narasingha Mishra and Congress Campaing Committee chairman Bhakta Charan Das, PCC working president Pradip Majhi, Koraput MlA Tara Prasad Bahinipati and Parala MlA K Surya addressed the gathering. The meeting was presided over by DCC president Bibhuti Patra.
Among others, former Minister Haladhar Karji, senior leader Dasharathi Gamang, State Women Congress secretry Meenakshi Sahu, former ZP President Y Ramchandra Rao and Congress Parala town president Basant Panda were present.
Thousands of party workers and common people from across Gajapati district gathered at the meeting.