Sipping chai sitting on khats netas connect with public

Indore | Monday | 19th November, 2018

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We must enroll further to take benefit of the schemes run by the government. The situation has greatly improved as compared to 15 years ago, but we need to move further ahead,” GS Damor, BJP candidate from Jhabua said in a khatla baithak.Nirmala Bhuria, BJP candidate from Petlawad and tribal leader Dilip Singh Bhuria’s daughter, has also started her series of khatla baithaks in which she can be heard reiterating the development and schemes brought about by Prime Minister Narendra Modi , chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan , her father Dilip Bhuria and herself. I have promised them to ensure better maintenance of educational and medical facilities, which was there in state when Congress was in power,” Vikrant Bhuria, Congress candidate from Jhabua said.Congress has claimed that through this Khatla Baithak they have also found out about the problems in implementation of the scenes implemented digitally since people in Jhabua are not digitally advanced.“We also tell the villagers the relevant points of our manifesto beneficial for them,” Nirmal Mehta, Jhabua district president of Congress said.While Congress is offering solutions to problems faced by people, BJP’s khatla baithaks are about taking the area forward on the path of development which they have been walking for the past 15 years.“We now have LPG connections in most homes. Indore: In a landscape, where houses of voters are scattered over a wide area, holding chaupals at village level is the most personal mode possible of contacting villagers for political candidates this poll season in Jhabua and Alirajpur districts.The trend of khatla baithak has started in each constituency, where candidates are reaching around 10 villages every day to urge people to vote for them.This kind of campaigning is a two-way communication with voters in which the candidates are taking feedback from the villagers and at the same time making promises for their betterment and welfare if elected.The khatla baithaks usually comprise 50 to 100 villagers, who discuss with politicians the issues they are facing over a cup of tea or light snacks.“I have been going to around 10 villages per day for past few days to hold khatla baithaks, and I have discovered that people of all sections are suffering..