JDU launches 'awareness campaign' on the birth anniversary of JP in Uttar Pradesh

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RATAN SHARGA

The youth wing of Janta Dal United launched an 'awareness campaign' here in Lucknow on Tuesday. The programme was aimed at reaching out to the youth of state and bringing them to the party fold.

TUESDAY WITNESSED a series of political programmes all across the Hindi heartland especially as it was the birth anniversary of Loknayak Jaiprakash Narain whose JP movement dislodged the Indira Gandhi’s government in the 70s, and once again the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners decided to launch a fresh attack on the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre on the birth anniversary of JP and hence senior BJP leader L K Advani reached Bihar to start his ‘rath yatra’ while the NDA convenor and Janta Dal United national president Sharad Yadav reached Lucknow to address the party workers during the ‘awareness campaign’ programme that was organized by the JDU youth wing at the Ravindralaya auditorium here on Tuesday.

Sharad Yadav offered floral tributes to the leader and inaugurated the programme by lighting the lamp. Addressing the party workers and leaders of the youth wing who converged on the occasion from all across the state, Sharad Yadav said, “Inflation and price rise have become the biggest challenge in front of the common man and what makes the scenario even worse is the series of scams that have made headlines in the newspapers in recent times. Many of the central level ministers are languishing in jails and many are waiting for their turn. Right from Raja to Kalmadi everybody got an opportunity to loot the people’s money in this UPA regime.”

Sharad Yadav said issues such as bringing the black money back to India from Swiss banks, corruption, giving a proper representation to women in the Parliament for which the party primarily focused on the women's reservation bill, etc., were raised by their party first in the Parliament and for which the party did struggle a lot from the House to the streets of this nation, but some people are trying now to hijack these issues. He called on the party workers to work hard in their respective areas and make people aware of the programmes and policies of the Janta Dal United so that they can understand better whom to choose in the next elections which are round the corner in Uttar Pradesh.

“About 75 percent of the people in India live in villages and they are economically backward, then how can one imagine of making the nation stronger without making that 75 percent of the population economically self-reliant and independent. We need to empower the people living in villages as dreamt by Mahatma Gandhi and Jaiprakash Narain. It is also unfortunate to see that today India stands aloof in this world because of the faulty policies adopted by the Congress. Earlier, there was USSR, which was our strong friend and an ally at the international level but today there is no one on whom India can really rely upon,” said Sharad Yadav.

JDU state president Suresh Niranjan ‘Bhaiyaji’ while addressing the members of youth wing said, “the people in Uttar Pradesh are looking for an option which can give them good governance and a government which can listen to their problems. The NDA government would be the best alternative as people have tried both SP and BSP quite a few times. There has been no development in the areas of Bundelkhand and so is the case of eastern districts where no job opportunities were created by the state government in all these years.”

National president of the party’s youth wing Shailendra Yadav said the awareness campaign that was initiated by the party would enlighten the people of state about the developments and achievement that have created records in Bihar under the dynamic leadership of Nitish Kumar, and the youth wing will organize many more such campaigns all across India in order to reach as many people possible. This would help the party in making a direct contact with the people present at the grass-root level. The party would also form “Rachna Vahini” as desired and dreamt by Jaiprakash Narain at village level in order to ensure that basic civic amenities and facilities like primary education, health and safety besides opportunities of employment reach upto the last man on this earth.

Among the others who spoke on the occasion include party’s senior vice-president and ex-MP K C Tyagi, state general secretary Subhash Pathak, general secretary legal cell Raju Bakshi, Dr Sita Rai, Pradeep Srivastava, and Arun Srivastava, etc.