Ranchi: Central President of AJSU and former Deputy Chief Minister of the state Sudesh Kumar Mahto has raised questions on the intentions of the state government regarding the local policy. Addressing a press conference in the party office he said that if the state government is serious about implementing the local policy according to public sentiment then it should implement what was said in the House. He said that the parties in power should avoid keeping the state in an illusion.
Sudesh said once the Chief Minister had said in the assembly itself that local policy cannot be implemented on the basis of Khatiyaan of 1932 but on the contrary in the special session of the Assembly on September 5 he said that he will implement the local policy and will also increase reservation to OBCs.
Even in the elections, the JMM had promised that it would implement a fresh local policy but the government is about to be three years old, their stand and attitude on this issue is not clear Sudesh said adding that if the government does not implement the policy on the basis of Khatiyaan of 1932, then the AJSU party will run a special campaign from 23 September.
Sudesh Mahto said that if the Chief Minister says anything in the House, then its seriousness should also be shown. Along with the local policy, the government should also implement the planning policy but people do not have faith in JMM which is leading the power regarding local policy and planning policy. In such a situation, questions also arise on the past of JMM as if the JMM wanted, Jharkhand would have become a separate state in 1993 but it chose the other path.
The Khatiyaan of 1932 should remain at the center in implementing the local policy he said adding that the AJSU party has been raising its voice continuously on this issue. On September 23, the party is going to start a program on the occasion of Binod Bihari’s birth anniversary and under this, workers from every assembly constituency will reach the capital Ranchi and will go to Raj Bhavan
while marching on foot in will hand over a reminder letter to the Governor so that the government at least remembers that Khatian-based local policy is related to the need and spirit of this state.