Keonjhar: PCC president Niranjan Patnaik said the KALIA scheme of the state government has flopped and the party will bring in special policies for welfare of farmers, if it is voted to power.
He was speaking at a district unit executive body meeting of the party at Nagar Bhawan in Keionjhar Thursday.
Ex-PCC president Jaydev Jena, general secretary of PCC Alok Mishra, party’s district in-charge Rasananada Mohanty, district unit president Mohan Charan Parida and Rajan Sahu deliberated on strategies on how to strengthen the party at the booth levels and win back confidence of people.
The leaders said party cadres need to work in tandem to achieve the electoral goals.
Pantnaik observed that the party should make special policies for the welfare of farmers as the state government’s KALIA scheme has failed.
The party will find right ways to make farmers self sufficient, to create jobs for unemployed youths, to take steps to reopen closed industries and mines, and lay emphasis on setting up of new industries, the PPC president said.
Alok Mishra said issues of rail connectivity from Bansapani to Barbil, establishment of steel industries in Keonjhar and quickening of the construction of Kanpur mega irrigation project will be incorporated in the party’s poll manifesto.
Congress leaders alleged that Keonjhar has been lying neglected for last 18 years and all round development of the district will be carried out if the Congress is voted to power.
Former PCC chief Jaydev Jena expressed hope that Congress under the leadership of Niranjan Patnaik would see its rise in Keonjhar and win in all the assembly segments.
Jena said the Congress has developed Odisha in the past and will carry on its development agenda in future, if it is voted to power.
He observed that mineral rich Keonjhar has enriched the state economy, but it was given a short shift on all fronts.
PNN