GERABARI (KATIHAR): The farmers of Purnia and Katihar parliamentary constituencies had been volubly rooting for PM Narendra Modi, particularly for his twin planks of hyper nationalism and national safety. They have capitalized on intensive banana farming for the last 20 years and have now been gradually moving to maize, makhana and other cash plants.
Also, the rich farmers and transporters together, who're smartly networked for evident economic reasons in the two adjacent constituencies, additionally constitute the local opinion makers. Gerabari is the hub for the transporters who attend to the desires and demands of farmers in the 50km radius. The manifest central level in their political issues is “national safety and the desire for secure (Indo-Pak) border”.
To exacerbate their anxiety though, they would have appreciated the BJP to contest the Purnia and Katihar seats. However, under the 17:17:6 seat-sharing components a number of the BJP, JD(U) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) headed by way of Ram Vilas Paswan, the BJP has ceded the two seats to the JD(U) led by way of CM Nitish Kumar.
In the situation, JD(U) nominee in Purnia is its sitting MP Santosh Kumar Kushwaha pitched against Uday Singh alias Pappu Singh of Congress. First runner-up to Kushwaha in Purnia from the BJP in the 2014 election, Uday joined the Congress last month because the seat had long gone to JD(U).
JD(U) has fielded former MLA Dulal Chand Goswami in Katihar against its sitting MP Tariq Anwar, now a Congress nominee. Tariq quit the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by way of Sharad Pawar last yr.
Implicitly, the JD(U) nominees would get the votes of the BJP cadres and supporters in the title of PM Modi. Otherwise, the switch of the two seats to JD(U) has angered the BJP cadres and its supporters, because of which the two Congress candidates have additionally been anticipating their “silent support” at the polling day. Its signs showed in the box as smartly.
Anant Kumar is a well known transporter at Gerabari. His firm carries agricultural produce to the markets. Initially, he was reluctant to talk about politics. “No, don’t talk to me about politics, not even elections. You can speak about anything else,” he stated, reasonably censoriously. Then, after discussing popularity of more than a few cash plants a number of the farmers over the last three many years, he yielded with a grin, “I can vote for JD(U) in the title of the one (allusion to PM Modi) who has large chest, strong arms and can guarantee national safety and secure border.”
However, the rich and not-so-rich farmers were comparatively more voluble in revealing their political selection. Hari Singh, Tiku Singh and a number of other others from Chandwa village in Falka block in Katihar would vote for the JD(U) nominee in the title of national safety and secure border with Pakistan. It is some other subject, though, that the supporters of Tariq and Pappu were additionally there in the village.
This development of political reflexes extends to all the period and breadth of the two constituencies where the rich farmers cultivate cash plants like banana, maize, makhana, jute, potato and peanuts, but even so doing bamboo plantation on a big scale. A commute by way of road thru state highways of Kursela-Forbesganj, Chandpur-Rupauli-Purnia and Katihar-Manihari, but even so NH-31, amply exhibited the fad.
Also, the rich farmers and transporters together, who're smartly networked for evident economic reasons in the two adjacent constituencies, additionally constitute the local opinion makers. Gerabari is the hub for the transporters who attend to the desires and demands of farmers in the 50km radius. The manifest central level in their political issues is “national safety and the desire for secure (Indo-Pak) border”.
To exacerbate their anxiety though, they would have appreciated the BJP to contest the Purnia and Katihar seats. However, under the 17:17:6 seat-sharing components a number of the BJP, JD(U) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) headed by way of Ram Vilas Paswan, the BJP has ceded the two seats to the JD(U) led by way of CM Nitish Kumar.
In the situation, JD(U) nominee in Purnia is its sitting MP Santosh Kumar Kushwaha pitched against Uday Singh alias Pappu Singh of Congress. First runner-up to Kushwaha in Purnia from the BJP in the 2014 election, Uday joined the Congress last month because the seat had long gone to JD(U).
JD(U) has fielded former MLA Dulal Chand Goswami in Katihar against its sitting MP Tariq Anwar, now a Congress nominee. Tariq quit the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by way of Sharad Pawar last yr.
Implicitly, the JD(U) nominees would get the votes of the BJP cadres and supporters in the title of PM Modi. Otherwise, the switch of the two seats to JD(U) has angered the BJP cadres and its supporters, because of which the two Congress candidates have additionally been anticipating their “silent support” at the polling day. Its signs showed in the box as smartly.
Anant Kumar is a well known transporter at Gerabari. His firm carries agricultural produce to the markets. Initially, he was reluctant to talk about politics. “No, don’t talk to me about politics, not even elections. You can speak about anything else,” he stated, reasonably censoriously. Then, after discussing popularity of more than a few cash plants a number of the farmers over the last three many years, he yielded with a grin, “I can vote for JD(U) in the title of the one (allusion to PM Modi) who has large chest, strong arms and can guarantee national safety and secure border.”
However, the rich and not-so-rich farmers were comparatively more voluble in revealing their political selection. Hari Singh, Tiku Singh and a number of other others from Chandwa village in Falka block in Katihar would vote for the JD(U) nominee in the title of national safety and secure border with Pakistan. It is some other subject, though, that the supporters of Tariq and Pappu were additionally there in the village.
This development of political reflexes extends to all the period and breadth of the two constituencies where the rich farmers cultivate cash plants like banana, maize, makhana, jute, potato and peanuts, but even so doing bamboo plantation on a big scale. A commute by way of road thru state highways of Kursela-Forbesganj, Chandpur-Rupauli-Purnia and Katihar-Manihari, but even so NH-31, amply exhibited the fad.
National security major issue for Purnia farmers
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Reviewed by Kailash
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April 16, 2019
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