Summary:
Congress already announced to waive farm loan, give solar pumps and extend financial assistance for five years to farmers if voted to power in Odisha,” Niranjan added. Visits of Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel to Odisha twice in last one week and his cabinet minister T S Singh Deo on Sunday assumed significance as the Pradesh Congress Committee plans to replicate the success in Odisha. Though Niranjan and manifesto committee chairman Ganeswar Behera have been touring different districts for past few weeks and receiving feedback of people for preparation of the manifesto, Singh Deo’s assistance will help fine-tune the manifesto, said a party insider. Bhubaneswar: Out of power in Odisha since 2000, Congress in the state has started the process of following Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, whose pre-poll modules resulted in party’s victory in recent assembly elections. He informed that Singh Deo played a key role in preparation of the poll manifesto in Chhattisgarh.“Interactions with farmers, college students, teachers, lawyers, auto drivers, doctors, nurses and ASHAs in Jagatsinghpur brought back memories of my own meetings with these groups in Chhattisgarh..