'MLA focusing on PDS rice, contract works'
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 04 2022:
INC's intending candidate in Khurai assembly constituency Khuraijam Ratankumar said that the MLA of the constituency is focusing on PDS rice and contract works rather than the development of the constituency.
Speaking at a political conference held at his home at Kangla Sangomsang on Tuesday, Ratankumar asserted that Khurai AC is blessed in abundance by nature.
Unfortunately past MLAs of the constituency did not understand these gifts of nature and ignored the development of Khurai.
Only if they utilise these potentials, youths in Khurai would have better income and lifestyles, he said.
He further said that Khurai AC is flanked by Iril and Imphal rivers and these two major rivers of the state can provide year round irrigation facilities to the farmlands in the constituency.
It could increase the income of farmers but no MLAs in the past or present had such ideas.
At the same time, the water accumulated in Ashirok area from Kongba Maru through Ishikha could also be utilised in favour of the farmers, he said.
On the other hand, no past MLAs of the constituency had any focus on improving education.
Khurai Popular High School, which had produced several doctors, engineers and scientists, is on the verge of getting extinct today.
The school campus has turned into a place for piling stone chips, construction sand, equipment and vehicles for contractors, which severely affects the academic atmosphere.
The local people should raise objection to such activities, he said.
He also alleged that the sitting MLA put his signature in downgrading the school.
MLA has no role in the distribution of PDS rice as it comes under the ambit of the DC of the district.
However, the MLA is involving himself in this operation and misappropriating public benefits by withholding NFSA cards.
All the details of his misappropriation of PDS rice will come out in the public soon, Ratankumar added.
Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee working president T Mangibabu, DCC Sawombung president Ng Khurdabanta and Khurai Block Congress Committee president Kumabam Sanajaoba attended the programme.