The Congress candidate from Raipur lok Sabha (lS) seat Satyanarayan Sharma on Tuesday sought the blessing of the voters on the last day of the campaigning.The State is going to the third and last phase of polls on April 24 for the remaining seven seats.
The State has total 11 seats and the BJP had won 10 seats in last general election held in 2009.On Tuesday, Sharma and the BJP candidate Ramesh Bais were seen approaching the voters to woo them to their respective sides.
As part of his campaign, Sharma also staged several roadshows in the seat appealing the voters to vote for him.The women and youths accorded him grant welcome at New Bus Stand, Timber Market, Shankar Nagar among a dozen places in the seat during his roadshows.
Besides them, shop owners and even customers came forward extending their support to him and vowed to defeat the incumbent Parliamentarian (Ramesh Bais of BJP) for the development of the area.
Sharma claimed that Bais could not even find jobs to 100 persons or arrange work for 100 persons under the Mahatma Gandhi Nation Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and failed to bring any development in the area. Even he said the incumbent MP failed to open his mouth once in the Parliament that none of the issues concerning them were raised in the Parliament.
Meanwhile, the Congress candidate also claimed to have got support from people of different communities and different walks of lives. The State Congress spokesperson Rajesh Bissa also accused the sitting MP of “being inactive towards solving people’s problems” and because of which none of the Central Government schemes were implemented properly in the seat. Sharma also accused the Chhattisgarh’s BJP Government of not doing justice to the seat and urged the people to vote for the Congress.