BJD to launch month-long public outreach march from October 9
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will launch month-long public outreach march from October 9 to highlight the failure of the Odisha BJP government.
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will take a resolution to hold a public outreach march by garlanding the statue of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi pn the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and the Dussehra festival on October 2. After this, the outreach march will officially start from Gopabandhu Jayanti on October 9 and will continue for a month till November 9, the party informed today.
Through this month-long program, the conch party will establish contact with the people and convey the failures of the last 15 months of the BJP government to the people of the state, the party said in a press conference today.
In a press conference held at Sankha Bhawan, the party’s senior vice president, Debi Prasad Mishra, and the party’s vice president and Chief Whip of the Opposition, Pramila Mallick, gave information about the party’s padayatra program and explained the failure of the BJP government in the state.
Mishra said that on the Gandhi Jayanti day, garlanding the statue of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, in all the constituencies of the state, and taking up the idea for the padayatra program. After that, the padayatra program will start from Gopabandhu Jayanti on October 9.
During this march, the BJP government’s failures will be informed to the people, said Mallick adding that the BJP came to power by making many false promises. However, after coming to power, the people of the state are already fed up with the activities of the BJP government.
The BJD leaders alleged that during the last 15 months of BJP’s rule, the law and order situation in the state has deteriorated and women in the state have become unsafe. The BSKY, which was started during Naveen Patnaik’s tenure, was very beneficial for the people of the state in the field of healthcare, but after the Ayushman Yojana was implemented by the BJP government, people are struggling to get healthcare.
“While promising to make Odisha alcohol and drug free, the BJP government is now opening 70 new liquor shops and two liquor factories. Farmers in the state are standing on the roads today due to lack of fertilizer. The government has committed mass murder of democracy by curtailing the powers of elected representatives at the Panchayat level,” said the conch party.
