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Call to continue war against corruption

By Correspondent

PATACHARKUCHI, Aug 22 � Akhil Gogoi, general secretary of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, has reiterated the Samiti�s mission and war against corruption and insisted on making the State corruption-free in the interest of the general people of the State.

Addressing a crowded public meeting at Tihu Durga puja mandap recently, the leader said that his war against corruption will continue and they set a deadline of 2015 to the government to fulfil their demand of streamlining public distribution system to make it corruption-free, giving 12 bighas of land patta to the landless cultivators, providing total irrigation in cultivation and solving the problem of flood and erosion. Otherwise the politicians will have to face stiff protest from the deprived section, he said.

He criticised the role of politicians in the State in huge corruption of public money in the name of implementing so-called schemes. He also explained how the ministers and the higher level officers pocket public money and increase the paid of the general people, especially the rural farmers� section of the State.

Quoting a famous line from the Hemingway novel Old Man and the Sea that �man can be destroyed but never defeated�, he said that he may be killed at any time but he will not slip off from his noble mission. Citing the examples of some ministers of the State, he asked the gathering how a minister can earn crores of rupees within a very short time and he is going to unveil the mystery behind. He told the gathering that the responsibility of alert people does not end after giving claps in the meeting, he should also join in the mission otherwise his dream of building the State that was dreamt by Bishnu Prasad Rabha will not be fulfilled.

During his lecture he also explained the disadvantages and great danger behind the proposed hydroelectric project of the State and appealed that at any cost it should be stopped.

Gogoi was earlier welcomed by various groups in a number of places on his way to Tihu and showed moral support to his mission. The meeting arranged under the banned of �Brihattar Tihu Jaiya Krishak Sabha� was presided over by Dharani Deka, retired teacher and also addressed by Prakash Mahanta, senior journalist. Kamal Kumar Medhi, publicity secretary of KMSS explained the aims and objectives of the Samiti and how it is reviving the struggle in the way shown by Bishnu Prasad Rabha for the greater interest of the deprived sections of the State.

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