Paswan launches yatra for two rights

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 12.

The Union Communication Minister and Lok Janshakti Party president, Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan, said today his party was committed to get ``Right to Education and Right to Work'' included as Fundamental Rights in the Constitution and voiced the demand to provide free education to all children below 14 year of age.

Mr. Paswan was addressing party workers at the party headquarters at Ferozeshah Road before flagging off the ``Parivaratan Rath'' launched to expose the misdeeds of the corrupt and inefficient Congress(I) Government in Delhi. The rath yatra would bring into focus the various problems being faced by the residents of the Capital. Also present on the occasion were the Chairman of the Parliamentary Board, Capt. Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, and the Lok Janshakti Party vice-president, Mr.Ramvir Singh Bidhuri. The Rath would go to all the blocks and districts in the city and apprise the people about the failure of the Delhi Government on all fronts.

Mr. Paswan said his party was committed to providing medical facilities at every village and panchayat. Not only this, his party would also work towards increasing the limit for housing loans under the Indira Avas Yojna and said rural development was the priority of his party.

Presenting a 15-point charter of demands, Mr. Bidhuri charged the Delhi Government with having failed to fulfill the promises made in the election manifesto. Demanding that the industries should not be dislocated till alternate land were provided. Mr. Bidhuri said the same rule should be applied to the slums which should only be demolished after proper relocation plans had been drawn up.

Accusing the Delhi Government of taking the farmers for a ride, Mr.Bidhuri demanded that the land compensation rate should be enhanced to Rs. 50 lakh per acre and it should be applicable from the date the government came to power. At the same time, surplus land should be distributed among the landless and a time frame be set for holding panchayat polls. The issue of alternative fuel, including Ultra Low Sulphur diesel should be explored along with CNG fuel.

He said the Rath Yatra, to be led by the Delhi unit president, Mr. Lalit Kumar Gautam, would go to all the 134 municipal wards of Delhi. He said if the Delhi Government failed to fulfill the demands raised by the Lok Janshakti Party, it would be constrained to gherao the Players Building at ITO, the seat of power of the Delhi Government.

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