Says he is not in race for CM post
Raipur, March 30, 2013
State Congress has decided to wholly adopt its national
vice president Rahul Gandhi’s formula as for the first time, it will distribute
tickets for assembly polls not on the basis of applications and recommendations,
but on grounds of survey report that will be conducted to identify potential
winning candidate. The party will also announce list of candidates at least
three months before polls.
“There will be only one criterion to
select an appropriate contestant for Vidhan Sabha elections and that will be
survey report,” said Union minister of state for agriculture and food
processing industries Charandas Mahant while talking to scribes at New Circuit
House on Saturday.
Mahant, who has recently held brisk meetings
with PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey after state
assembly’s budget session pertaining to party’s 2013 poll strategies, made it
evident that he was not in race for chief minister’s post as he would not
contest assembly polls.
“The party will rather go on polls under
united leadership and not project any particular face for CM,” he said.
On Congress parivartan rally to be
commenced from April 12 he said the party would go to people and inform them
about grafts prevailed in government departments. He said the rally would be
apt reply to the ruling party for ignoring people of Chhattisgarh.
Claiming that the Congress would succeed
in checking BJP’s winning streak he said the senior party leaders were
coordinating well with each other as well as with workers for it.
On CAG revelations he said the state
government’s wrong policies were to be blamed for it. He demanded CBI inquiry
into the irregularities pointed by CAG so that guilty officials could be
punished.
When asked that Congress had dragged
health minister Amar Agrawal’s name in Bhadoura land scam, he said his party
did not intend to target any one person, but rather aimed to expose all scams
of BJP government one-by-one. “For this, the Congress will aggressively launch
a movement against the government.”he said.
When pointed that the state’s crop
production had increased despite shrinking crop area, Mahant said it happened
due to Centre’s specific project framed for seven states including
Chhattisgarh. “By far, Punjab and Haryana were
highest crop producers but with Centre’s new project, the crop production in
other states too has increased,” he said.
On Kanker rape incident he said he had
submitted his report to the Centre and even a team from New Delhi had conducted probed into the
matter.
On recent rail projects approved for
Chhattisgarh he said it happened not due to state government’s efforts, but
because of Centre’s intention to expand rail services in the state. He said the
state government had also demanded a rail project linking CM Raman Singh’s
hometown Kawardha but the Centre rejected it because the officials did not
provide sufficient information pertaining to it.
On new schemes of his department for Chhattisgarh
he said a soon a project would be commenced to increase production of
vegetables, fruits and flowers.
On Nationalist Congress Party leader Nobel
Verma’s entry to Congress, he hoped that all leaders would unanimously take
decision on it.
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