Khattar strikes chord with Kurukshetra rural voters
KURUKSHETRA: The three-day Jan Samwad programme of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar ended in Kurukshetra on Wednesday. Through the programme, the CM striked a chord with rural voters and tested the waters ahead of the next year’s Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
“I am here not to deliver a speech but to have an interaction with locals and take feedback about the works that we have done during the past over eight years of our regime,” he said in his address in Nalvi village. He also asked the media and security officials to get aside so that he could have a direct contact with the public.
Under the programme, during his three-day stay in the district, the CM attended the events in nine villages, with 3,000 to 5,000 votes, and toured several villages of Thanesar, Shahbad, Pehowa and Ladwa assembly segments of the district. He also stopped his cavalcade at several locations to interact with students and farmers.
The chief minister claimed that dedicated efforts had been made to further strengthen roads and infrastructure of colleges, universities, medical colleges and health services and more projects will be completed in the next year.
Khattar had a direct interaction with hundreds of people, especially newly-elected sarpanches who raised the issues of poor infrastructure, health facilities, family IDs, cancellation of BPL ration cards, cleaning of ponds, drainage and encroachments on panchayati land.
“This is a good attempt by the CM to reach-out the rural voters to strengthen the party in these areas. The programmes got an overwhelming response among masses but we will have to see whether the BJP and the CM managed to persuade the sarpanches,” said a Karnal-based retired political science professor Dr Ramji Lal.
Faces people’s ire over cancelling ration cards
CM Khattar also faced criticism over cancellation of ration cards, old age pension and problems related to family IDs. He heard the problems being faced by people and redressed most of the issues on the spot. “In our second term, we got only three years to work as two years were gone in Covid. Now, with only one-and-half-year left, we have to work a lot for the betterment of the state,” the CM added. “The CM took more than three years to come to us. People are coming to his programmes as they are facing several problems and have many complaints,” said a Jhansa farmer Karnail Singh.