High profile civic body
Both the ruling BJP and opposition Congress think that Birgaon Municipal Council is a high profile civic body because of its capital links – geographically as well as politically. Few years back, when Birgaon had its first council elections, the fight for the chairman seat was not between Congress and BJP but it was ‘Dewangan v/s Dewangan’. The Congress fielded Dr Omprakash Dewangan and the BJP followed the caste card by showing its confidence on Horilal Dewangan, the former emerged as victorious. This time, Dr Omprakash is back again from Congress, but the BJP has put forward Patiram Sahu. The seat is prestigious for both the parties and none wants to lose. Where the Congress would prominently raise the issues like no law and order and corruption in the state besides local issues, the BJP would stick to development factor and would seek vote by pointing that its victory would change the fate of the region.
Time to make false promises again
It is election time again. The civic bodies where polls would be conducted on December 21 have turned into a political battleground. The candidates from different political parties as well as independents are looking highly confident. They are suddenly behaving as if they have won the elections beforehand. The game of promises and assurances has begun. The candidates are attempting to convey message to the public that the election is simply a formality and they have framed bigger plans for their constituencies. But the citizens have realised that the politicians break all relations once they come in power. Hence, for voters, politicians are nothing more than pranksters who appear once in every five years to exhibit their age old humdrum game. Some citizens even say that if any candidate would arrive in their area for door-to-door campaign, they would prefer to lock their door from inside to avoid facing the fake humans.
We don’t like cake
The Congress leaders are suddenly refraining to eat cakes in the wake of ‘tricolour cake cutting episode’. The leaders, who had proudly posed for photographs cutting the tricolour cake on the birthday of their party supremo Sonia Gandhi, promptly switched off their cell phones when they realised that they had committed a grave mistake. Where the ruling BJP termed it an insult to the national flag, the other Congress leaders too concede that it was shameful incident but they could not help laughing and saying that neither they would attend any cake cutting function at Congress Bhawan in future nor would eat it before the media.
We won people’s trust in past 7 years: CM
BJP govt successfully completes 2 yrs in its second term today
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The BJP-led state government has won people’s confidence in the past seven years and this is the most outstanding achievement for me as a chief minister. This is the reason there was no anti-incumbency factor in the state during 2008 Assembly elections and the people of Chhattisgarh mandated BJP for the second consecutive time considering the development works it carried out in the previous term. Chief Minister Raman Singh was speaking about the BJP government’s increasing popularity in the state while talking to the media persons at his residence on Saturday, just a day before the second anniversary of his party in power.
Singh apparently indicated that the Opposition Congress could not do in the past fifty years what the BJP did in merely seven years. “We know the next three years will be challenging, but we will achieve what we are aiming,” he said adding that the government was consistently endeavouring to improve.
“Chhattisgarh journeyed a long distance in the seven years as its budget increased from just Rs 7000 crore in 2003 to Rs 28000 crore in 2010. We surpassed other states in terms of GDP and stood on top with 11.49 percent and succeeded in establishing our unique identity in national and international arena through our public distribution system (PDS) and paddy procurement methods,” Singh said.
When asked what would be the government’s next step after its Rs two per kg rice scheme for the impoverished section, Singh said, “We will soon distribute gram (chana) at similar economical rates in the tribal-populated areas like Bastar.”
On government’s success rate in curbing naxalism in the state, Singh said except few major incidents his government had succeeded tapping public support in the far-fetched Maoist-hit regions and it happened because of its development mantra.
When pointed that corruption was one major factor that usually put the government in backfoot, Singh said, “We are committed to root out corruption from the system. The initial success is palpable at bottom level where we have filled vacant posts of Shikshakarmis and others through recruitment procedures without any controversy.”
Asked why the government did not look serious in controlling the unruly bureaucrats, Singh said, “We will tighten the administration from state to district level. Besides, the ministers will ensure that the development projects in the districts may not get affected due to local administration’s negligence.”
Govt should buy wet paddy at MSP: Cong
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The Congress says that if the government really intends to compensate the farmers whose paddy got moistened due to recent unseasonal rains then it should purchase the wet paddy at minimum support price (MSP). “This will be the real compensation package and crop bonus for the farmers who have been severely affected by the rains,” said PCC president Dhanendra Sahu. ‘If the government will not fulfill our the demand then we will launch statewide dharna and agitation,” he added.
“The farmers have incurred huge loss due to the intermittent rains in the past four months. Apart from this, they are also frustrated by the moisture meter being used by the procurement centres to purchase paddy. The meters are not credible and the reports of such meters have been varying for the same crop in the government’s different procurement centres. The society officials are threatening and deceiving the illiterate farmers on the name of moisture meters and are benefiting the grain merchants,” Sahu said.
He further alleged that the Chief Minister Raman Singh was simply misleading the farmers by writing letters to the Centre pertaining to crop loss and provision of compensation package due to rains, but had refrained to announce any such package.
‘Earlier, the government was purchasing paddy through mandis that have sufficient arrangement of sheds and platforms to store paddy and protect it from rains. But now the government is procuring paddy through cooperative societies that do not have any storage and rain protection arrangement,” Sahu said.
“If the government is making provision of Rs 4000-5000 crore in its annual budget for paddy procurement then it should also make provision for the sheds and platforms to store foodgrains. The provision should be both for the cooperative societies and the farmers who wish to sell their foodgrains to the government,” Sahu said.
He further alleged that the government had not purchased even a single sack of paddy this year. “As compared to previous year, the government had purchased 20-25 percent paddy this year but through Food Corporation of India (FCI),” Sahu said.
On transportation system for purchase and storage of paddy, Sahu alleged anarchy prevailed in it as either majority of the storage centres had been closed to benefit the grain mafias or the paddy had been transported to such places where the contractors were getting benefit. Sahu cited example of Durg district’s where earlier 11 storage centres were established but later ten were closed.
On compensation to the people hit by the natural disasters, Sahu said the government had already set a record of not announcing any relief package for the affected ones.
Cong’s poll campaign office in Birgaon opens
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The Congress opened poll campaign office for its Birgaon Municipal Council chairman candidate Dr Omprakash Dewangan on Saturday. The PCC president Dhanendra Sahu inaugurated the office in presence of PCC working president Satyanarayan Sharma, DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal.
Cong announces 120-mmeber poll campaign panel for BMC
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The Congress announced 120-member election campaign committee for Bhilai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday. The convenor of the committee will be DCC Durg president Ghanaram Sahu while co-convenors will be Vaishalinagar legislator Bhajan Singh Nirankari, Durg Rural legislator Pratima Chandrakar and Bhilai Nagar MLA Badruddin Quraishi.
Both the ruling BJP and opposition Congress think that Birgaon Municipal Council is a high profile civic body because of its capital links – geographically as well as politically. Few years back, when Birgaon had its first council elections, the fight for the chairman seat was not between Congress and BJP but it was ‘Dewangan v/s Dewangan’. The Congress fielded Dr Omprakash Dewangan and the BJP followed the caste card by showing its confidence on Horilal Dewangan, the former emerged as victorious. This time, Dr Omprakash is back again from Congress, but the BJP has put forward Patiram Sahu. The seat is prestigious for both the parties and none wants to lose. Where the Congress would prominently raise the issues like no law and order and corruption in the state besides local issues, the BJP would stick to development factor and would seek vote by pointing that its victory would change the fate of the region.
Time to make false promises again
It is election time again. The civic bodies where polls would be conducted on December 21 have turned into a political battleground. The candidates from different political parties as well as independents are looking highly confident. They are suddenly behaving as if they have won the elections beforehand. The game of promises and assurances has begun. The candidates are attempting to convey message to the public that the election is simply a formality and they have framed bigger plans for their constituencies. But the citizens have realised that the politicians break all relations once they come in power. Hence, for voters, politicians are nothing more than pranksters who appear once in every five years to exhibit their age old humdrum game. Some citizens even say that if any candidate would arrive in their area for door-to-door campaign, they would prefer to lock their door from inside to avoid facing the fake humans.
We don’t like cake
The Congress leaders are suddenly refraining to eat cakes in the wake of ‘tricolour cake cutting episode’. The leaders, who had proudly posed for photographs cutting the tricolour cake on the birthday of their party supremo Sonia Gandhi, promptly switched off their cell phones when they realised that they had committed a grave mistake. Where the ruling BJP termed it an insult to the national flag, the other Congress leaders too concede that it was shameful incident but they could not help laughing and saying that neither they would attend any cake cutting function at Congress Bhawan in future nor would eat it before the media.
We won people’s trust in past 7 years: CM
BJP govt successfully completes 2 yrs in its second term today
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The BJP-led state government has won people’s confidence in the past seven years and this is the most outstanding achievement for me as a chief minister. This is the reason there was no anti-incumbency factor in the state during 2008 Assembly elections and the people of Chhattisgarh mandated BJP for the second consecutive time considering the development works it carried out in the previous term. Chief Minister Raman Singh was speaking about the BJP government’s increasing popularity in the state while talking to the media persons at his residence on Saturday, just a day before the second anniversary of his party in power.
Singh apparently indicated that the Opposition Congress could not do in the past fifty years what the BJP did in merely seven years. “We know the next three years will be challenging, but we will achieve what we are aiming,” he said adding that the government was consistently endeavouring to improve.
“Chhattisgarh journeyed a long distance in the seven years as its budget increased from just Rs 7000 crore in 2003 to Rs 28000 crore in 2010. We surpassed other states in terms of GDP and stood on top with 11.49 percent and succeeded in establishing our unique identity in national and international arena through our public distribution system (PDS) and paddy procurement methods,” Singh said.
When asked what would be the government’s next step after its Rs two per kg rice scheme for the impoverished section, Singh said, “We will soon distribute gram (chana) at similar economical rates in the tribal-populated areas like Bastar.”
On government’s success rate in curbing naxalism in the state, Singh said except few major incidents his government had succeeded tapping public support in the far-fetched Maoist-hit regions and it happened because of its development mantra.
When pointed that corruption was one major factor that usually put the government in backfoot, Singh said, “We are committed to root out corruption from the system. The initial success is palpable at bottom level where we have filled vacant posts of Shikshakarmis and others through recruitment procedures without any controversy.”
Asked why the government did not look serious in controlling the unruly bureaucrats, Singh said, “We will tighten the administration from state to district level. Besides, the ministers will ensure that the development projects in the districts may not get affected due to local administration’s negligence.”
Govt should buy wet paddy at MSP: Cong
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The Congress says that if the government really intends to compensate the farmers whose paddy got moistened due to recent unseasonal rains then it should purchase the wet paddy at minimum support price (MSP). “This will be the real compensation package and crop bonus for the farmers who have been severely affected by the rains,” said PCC president Dhanendra Sahu. ‘If the government will not fulfill our the demand then we will launch statewide dharna and agitation,” he added.
“The farmers have incurred huge loss due to the intermittent rains in the past four months. Apart from this, they are also frustrated by the moisture meter being used by the procurement centres to purchase paddy. The meters are not credible and the reports of such meters have been varying for the same crop in the government’s different procurement centres. The society officials are threatening and deceiving the illiterate farmers on the name of moisture meters and are benefiting the grain merchants,” Sahu said.
He further alleged that the Chief Minister Raman Singh was simply misleading the farmers by writing letters to the Centre pertaining to crop loss and provision of compensation package due to rains, but had refrained to announce any such package.
‘Earlier, the government was purchasing paddy through mandis that have sufficient arrangement of sheds and platforms to store paddy and protect it from rains. But now the government is procuring paddy through cooperative societies that do not have any storage and rain protection arrangement,” Sahu said.
“If the government is making provision of Rs 4000-5000 crore in its annual budget for paddy procurement then it should also make provision for the sheds and platforms to store foodgrains. The provision should be both for the cooperative societies and the farmers who wish to sell their foodgrains to the government,” Sahu said.
He further alleged that the government had not purchased even a single sack of paddy this year. “As compared to previous year, the government had purchased 20-25 percent paddy this year but through Food Corporation of India (FCI),” Sahu said.
On transportation system for purchase and storage of paddy, Sahu alleged anarchy prevailed in it as either majority of the storage centres had been closed to benefit the grain mafias or the paddy had been transported to such places where the contractors were getting benefit. Sahu cited example of Durg district’s where earlier 11 storage centres were established but later ten were closed.
On compensation to the people hit by the natural disasters, Sahu said the government had already set a record of not announcing any relief package for the affected ones.
Cong’s poll campaign office in Birgaon opens
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The Congress opened poll campaign office for its Birgaon Municipal Council chairman candidate Dr Omprakash Dewangan on Saturday. The PCC president Dhanendra Sahu inaugurated the office in presence of PCC working president Satyanarayan Sharma, DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal.
Cong announces 120-mmeber poll campaign panel for BMC
Raipur, December 11, 2010
The Congress announced 120-member election campaign committee for Bhilai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday. The convenor of the committee will be DCC Durg president Ghanaram Sahu while co-convenors will be Vaishalinagar legislator Bhajan Singh Nirankari, Durg Rural legislator Pratima Chandrakar and Bhilai Nagar MLA Badruddin Quraishi.
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