Will wipe out BJP from state in coming polls: CM
JAMSHEDPUR: Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren, on Thursday, said that they would wipe out the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Jharkhand in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, as they had done earlier in the 2019 assembly elections by wiping them out of Kolhan completely.
“The double-engine government has always taken people for a ride. People are watching and realising everything. We have now reduced the fiscal deficit, and the state is on a steady growth path. My government is taking forward all the pro-people schemes like pensions, scholarships, rations, etc., which were introduced by former CM Hemant Soren. All our alliance partners will sit together and decide who will fight from which seat,” Champai said.
The CM, accompanied by State health minister Banna Gupta, inspected the ₹252 crore Mango-Sakchi flyover after the CM laid the foundation for the 50,000 litre per day Medha Dairy plant at Baliguma in Jamshedpur earlier on Thursday.
“This plant now produces 50,000 litres of milk daily; it will go up to 1 lakh litres per day after this new plant starts operating. Medha Dairy needed an 8-acre plot, but it is now being set up on a 5-acre plot. The rest 3-acre plot would be provided later,” said Badal Ptralekh, state agriculture minister on the occasion. Later, CM and Gupta inspected and oversaw the commencement of work on the ground for the ₹252 crore flyover over the river Subarnarekha, connecting Mango with Sakchi in Jamshedpur on Thursday.
The joint ventures of Gujaratbased Dinesh Chandra Agrawal and Ibra Iscon started the levelling work on Thursday for this 3.4 km flyover with two hands on one side linking Purulia Road and Dimna Road on the Mango side with Sakchi on the Jamshedpur side. The foundarecently, tion of this flyover was laid by the former CM Hemant Soren last year.
“The flyover will be completed in the next 18 years. Many people had ridiculed this as my daydream... but it is now going to be a reality soon. I have fulfilled another of my promises to the people of Jamshedpur,” said Banna Gupta, the Jamshedpur (West) MLA and state health minister.
The CM also laid the foundation for 84 projects worth ₹356 crore, including the bund along the banks of rivers Kharkai and Sanjay under Gazia Barrage and the Bhimkhanda micro lift pipeline irrigation project under Gamharia block in his home district Seraikela-Kharsawan. “This bund and pipeline project will help irrigate 3000 hectares of farmland,” said Soren.
Earlier, CM distributed appointment letters to 2454 candidates for different posts in various departments in another function in Ranchi this morning. “We are coming out with advertisements for recruitment in 30,000 vacant posts in the state government within the next 3-4 months,” added Soren.
HT couldn’t get a response from the BJP on the remarks.