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SPECIAL TRAINS FOR BJD TO DELHI TO PRESS FOR SPECIAL STATE TAG
Wednesday, 22 May 2013 |
PNS | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar
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The State’s
ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leaders and workers will go to New Delhi by
special trains on June 8 to press their demand of Special Category State status
for Odisha.
The party is
requisitioning special trains for the purpose, said sources in the East Coast
Railway. Trainloads of party workers will accompany BJD president and Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik, who will present a one-crore-signature memorandum to
President Pranab Mukherjee on June 9.
Intensifying its
signature drive to press the Centre for granting Special Category State status
to Odisha, the BJD on Monday announced that it would organise special meetings
at the grassroots level to collect signatures from people and make them aware
about the issue.
BJD leaders, while
addressing a news conference here, also urged all the political parties to
cooperate in the signature campaign for the larger interests of the State.
They appealed to all the
panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) and urban local bodies (ULBs) to collect
signatures to build pressure on the Centre to grant the special tag to the
State. BJD vice-president and Minister Kalpataru Das, general secretary and
Minister Debi Prasad Mishra and BYJD president and Government Deputy Chief Whip
in Assembly Sanjay Dasburma held a joint Press conference to issue the appeal.
Stating that the Assembly
has already adopted a unanimous resolution for declaring Odisha as a Special
Category State, the leaders said all other political parties should organise
similar signature drives so as to join the chorus with the BJD.
According to the agenda
of the party, it would hold special meetings of all gram panchayats on May 31
to sensitise people about the need for Special Category State status while
collecting their signatures. A candlelight procession would also be organised
on the same day across the State.
Special meetings of the
ULBs would be held on June 1, followed by candlelight procession in the evening.
Besides, the party would hold special meetings of the panchayat samitis and
organise candlelight processions on June 3.
“The signature campaign
will end on June 7 when human chains will be orginised at strategic places
across the State. A memorandum will be handed over to the BJD president and
Chief Minister on June 9 at a special meeting. Later, it will be submitted to
the President of India,” said the BJD leaders.
The BJD had launched the
signature campaign on the birthday of Utkal Gaurab Madhusudan Das being kicked
off by party Naveen Patnaik.
A fresh move by the BJD
against the Centre, the signature campaign was conceived after the Union
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on April 18 approved allocation of
Rs 250 crore per annum for the Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) region of the
State under the Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) in the 12th FiveYear Plan
while granting as much as Rs 1,200 crore to Bihar
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