Bhopal, Sep 23 (Inditop.com) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will go it alone in the forthcoming civic polls in Madhya Pradesh, though it may have a truck with the Congress for the Maharashtra assembly elections.
Making this announcement here, newly appointed president of the NCP’s Madhya Pradesh unit Brijmohan Srivastava Wednesday said if given a chance in the civic Polls, his party would present a model of development and an example of good governance.
“It would make the people of the state understand the difference between us and other political parties,” he said.
Elections to local bodies, including municipal corporations, will be held in all the 50 districts of Madhya Pradesh in November.
Addressing a press conference here, Srivastava said his party was committed to work for the development of the state and welfare of the people in keeping with the party’s policies under the guidance of NCP’s national president Sharad Pawar.
Srivastava said his party would leave no stone unturned in exposing the “misdeeds and anti-people” policies of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He recently quit the Congress because it was not, he said, able to play the role of an effective opposition.
“We will fight for the rights of the people tooth and nail,” he asserted. “Power shortage, water crisis, unemployment, rotten condition of roads, deteriorating law and order situation, increasing women victimization, atrocities on the SCs, STs and other weaker sections of society, and employees’ welfare would be the main issues to be taken up by his party,” the state NCP president said.
Ruling out the possibility of having an alliance with any other political party, Srivastava said the NCP would contest the polls on its own and give priority to fielding such candidates who had far been sidelined by other parties but had the aptitude to serve people.
“While priority would be given to educated youth, our efforts would be to bring people from all walks of life – belonging to any caste or creed – in the mainstream as development of the state can’t be limited to some particular sections of the society,” he said.
Srivastava also said leaders and workers of several political parties, including the BJP, the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party were in touch with his party and a committee had been constituted to facilitate their entry in the NCP.
