Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Dr Charandas Mahant hopes that Congress will win the next Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh. “The party supremo has given opportunity to me as a minister at Centre, Nandkumar Patel as a PCC chief and Ravindra Choubey as a leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha. We are jointly working to consolidate the party. We will give importance to all the senior leaders as well as workers. In fact, no one will be ignored,” said Mahant while answering to a question over his party’s poor poll performance in previous elections and future plans during his media interaction at New Circuit House on Monday.
“I have no hesitation in admitting that the party lost past elections because we lacked unity. We are working hard and would ensure that the history may not get repeated. We will unitedly fight next polls and form government in Chhattisgarh,” he said.
When asked his comment over allegations that the Congress was working as B team of the state government, Mahant said, “This is wrong and a sheer rumour. In fact, Congress is committed to expose corruption prevailed in the state government. It is also collecting evidences of misuse of funds released by the Centre.”
When asked to elaborate his remark regarding lacking in state, Mahant said, “There is no progress in agriculture sector. Rather, the government has completely failed to create opportunities for youth in this sector. Similarly, education sector is not at par with other states. The government has failed to develop ‘trust factor’ in students pertaining to competition examinations. The controversies in PMT, PET, PSC and other competition exams apparently indicate that the government has barely made an effort to raise the standards of education sector at national and global level.
When pointed that the minimum support price (MSP) against paddy procurement needed more hike, the minister said, “I agree that the MSP should be given to the farmers in proportion to production cost.”
Earlier, Mahant said it was not his official media interaction. “In fact, I will take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for believing in me,” he said.
He said his representation at Centre would certainly benefit the state. “I feel sad that the state’s agriculture sector has not grown much. But now, since I got an opportunity to represent Chhattisgarh at Centre, I invite the state government and the common mass as well to give their inputs regarding betterment of agriculture sector, I would surely convey the messages to the Union government,” Mahant said.
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