Greater Noida: BSP in-charge Satveer Nagar undertakes road show

GREATER NOIDA: Even as dates for the impending Lok Sabha elections are yet to be announced (despite the last general election dates announced on March 4, 2014), the Noida wing of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) under Satveer Nagar (the BSP-SP alliance in-charge of Gautam Budh Nagar) carried a road show on Monday from Dadri assembly constituency to Dankaur, Kasna, Pari Chowk, Surajpur, Haldwani, Bisarkh, Patwari covering villages of Itada, Chhaprola, Kachera Varsabad, Dujana, Badlapur, Mahavad, Bambabad, Jarcha, Sakirpur etc.in district Gautam Budh Nagar where they encountered farmers’ grouse of neglect and unfulfilled promises.
Nagar, high on receiving positive response from the road show, maintained that his campaign will centre around addressing farmers' issue and lack of development work for the district under the BJP's two-year state government rule and the five-year central government rule. He claimed that the BJP is only garnering claim over projects envisioned and launched during the previous BSP-SP governments with no development work or infra projects of their own.
“All development and infra projects including airport, flyovers, underpasses etc. were envisioned and launched during previous governments of BSP and SP. It was our party supremo Mayawati ji who gave the district four colleges, the Gautam Budh University, planned all the elevated roads, flyovers, underpasses as well as the airport for the district. What has the present BJP government done in the name of development for the district other than mere ribbon cutting and claiming credit for projects that were launched during the BSP and SP governments?” said Nagar.
Lakhmi Singh, another senior BSP worker, maintained that the farmers across the district are unhappy over no redress of their issues. “We had a hugely successful road show with more than 2 km long cavalcade and followers. Everywhere we went including all the villages during the road show, farmers' plight was paramount as the farmers are very hurt and most unhappy with no redress to their land dues issues. In fact farmers from Kachera village have called for a boycott of BJP in their area,” said Singh.
“I too am a farmer’s son and understand their plight. We will take the farmers’ issue on priority in Parliament,” said Nagar during the road show.
Though there is no official announcement of party candidate yet from the BSP for the Lok Sabha elections, the BSP had announced Satveer Nagar as party in-charge for district Gautam Budh Nagar on February 20 last month, and consequently expected to be BSP-SP alliance candidate for the Lok Sabha seat from district Gautam Budh Nagar which was attributed to BSP post the seat sharing agreement between the alliance partners earlier this year.
37-year-old Nagar is a science graduate from Delhi University and a resident of Atta village with having ancestral farm land in Greater Noida. He promises to reach every household to address local issues.