Congress Member of Parliament Bhakt Charan Das who is camping in Bastar to ensure victory of the Congress candidate on Wednesday said that on coming to power the Congress Government will make special arrangement for Bastar division under which not only the right on Jal, Jungle, Jameen (Water, Forest and land) would be given to Tribal people but also on their consent only any development work would be taken up here.
They should also have absolute right on more than 100 minor forest produce of the Bastar area as well. Das while accusing the Chief Minister for deploying 64 thousand security forces in Rajnandgaon alone and leaving the rest with little, said that no justice could be expected from him.
Notably, the Congress held a workers special meeting at Ayush Mahavar Bhawan on Wednesday which was attended by Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee president Charandas Mahant, AICC Secretary and Chhattis-garh In-charge Bhakt Charan das, In-charge Jagdalpur Assembly constituency Shri Bahanapati, Former MlA Anturam Kashyap, District (Shahar) Committee president Manohar lunia, Malkit Singh Gaindu, Rekhchand Jain, Omkar Singh Jaswal, Sampat Jha, Atirikta Shukla and others besides party candidate Samu Kashyap.
Speaking on this occasion CGPCC Chief Charandas Mahant said that the Congress was always with poor and urged the people to make Congress candidate victorious. In the meeting the attending leaders hailed the decision of the party high command to select Samu Kashyap and expressed unity.
They also vowed to work unitedly in support of the party candidate. Grassroot workers were advised to make people aware of the Centre’s welfare scheme and at the same time expose the failures of the State Government.