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BOKAKHAT: Amid the peak of the Panchayat election campaign wave, a press conference was held on Friday at the Komargaon office of the Komargaon Regional Journalist Association, where Raijor Dal’s vice president Jibon Chandra Bora appealed to the people of Assam to elect Raijor Dal’s candidates in the upcoming Panchayat elections.
He claimed that past representatives from AGP or BJP in Gaon Panchayat, Anchalik Panchayat, or Zila Parishad had failed to remain impartial or act with integrity. He accused several government-affiliated individuals of masquerading as social workers, going door-to-door distributing false Orunodoi forms to appease voters, luring them with promises of housing and threatening to remove names from government schemes or cancel ration cards if they did not vote in favour of their parties.
Bora questioned why the ruling party now needs to rely on money, muscle power, and coercion if they had genuinely worked for public welfare over the past ten years. Referring to a promise made by the Chief Minister in Golaghat on December 14, 2024, that every flood-affected family would receive Rs 1.20 lakh, he criticized that only a few families received Rs 4,000 while the rest were left out.
He further alleged that despite showcasing the image of development in panchayats such as Bihora, Numaligarh, Madhya Mahura, Uttar Mahura, and Dihing, only 40% of the allocated scheme funds were actually used for development. The rest, he claimed, were used to run the households of party workers. He warned that if other party-backed individuals are elected again to Panchayat, Anchalik Panchayat, or Zila Parishad posts, the same dismal state of affairs would continue.
Bora added that the previous BJP candidate, who had won from the 3 No. Mahura constituency, was removed from the party due to alleged misconduct. “This isn’t just our accusation,” he said, “but proven by BJP’s own official documents.” Jibon Chandra Bora, who is also the president of Raijor Dal’s Bokakhat unit, further alleged that many roads are in terrible condition, particularly the rural ones. He said that only 60% of the work under job cards was completed, and that Rs 5 lakh, allotted for a platform project at Afula, remained unutilized. Similarly, Rs 35 lakh, meant for road coverage in Afula Khamera, was completely unused, he said. Bora further alleged that numerous other works in Madhya Mahura Panchayat remain incomplete and that in the Bihar Bagicha area, corruption had tainted all wards under the Panchayat. In Numaligarh Panchayat, where BJP had previously won all seats without any opposition, the lack of any counter-voice led to widespread misuse of funds, he said.
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