Baharagora MlA Kunal Sarangi Sarangi on Thursday shared his experience so far as ‘first time MlA’ and his style of work especially in a rural area where there are no corporate houses and people mostly depend on the MlA to get their job done and reap benefits of the welfare schemes of Government. He also answered queries of the students and shared his vision about ‘ good politics’.
As a part of UnManifesto, a youth programme under United Nations Population Foundation Programme (UNFP), young students from Motilal Nehru Public School interacted with a public representative and asked questions on him and asked how to make politicians accountable for their work.
Students of class XI from Motilal Nehru Public School posed questions to Baharagora MlA Kunal Sarangi in their school today. Subjects like eve-teasing, higher education and NH-33 took to the fore during interaction.
UnManifesto is a UNFP sponsored programme where school and college students interacts on the concept of politics and its related terms to make politicians more accountable.
The young MlA of Bharagora said that he has tried his best to meet expectations of people. IN order to be a good politician there is need to stop by and listen to people, drink water whomsoever you are visiting and don’t make promises which you would not deliver. Try and devote yourself for people.
In Jamshedpur there are four schools—Gulmohur High School, Jamshedpur Public School, Motilal Nehru Public School and JH Tarapore that have taken the project through a city based NGO People for Change, the implementing agency of the programme in East Singhbhum.
Sarangi further noted: “If you want to become an MP, MlA or even CM just for power and the glamour then better not pursue it. Only when you would want to do something for the society genuinely, do come in politics”.
When questioned about lack of public toilets on NH-33 which makes it too difficult for women to travel by road he said: “ As far as my constituency is concerned, I have sanctioned 10 public toilets on NH-33 in the Baharagora region so that it helps everybody especially women. It will come up very soon”.
Senior teachers of the school also appreciated the UnManifesto focusses on youth concerns and motivates them to speak up. Questions like why vote, and whom to vote discussed.
In the end the students handed a charter of demands which was presented to Sarangi. The charter of demands included focus on skill development in schools, better higher education opportunities in the state and reservation only on the basis of economic status.