ELECTION SPECIAL

A candidate's novel plan to woo voters

When all the political parties are busy in organising campaigns in favour of their candidates by all the familiar means like pasting posters, displaying large banners, writing coloured graffiti on walls, etc, a candidate planned some other thing. He is going to start an indefinite hunger strike with a few followers. He is to organise a cultural programme too with star performers of 'yatra' and cinema.

 

Mr Krishnakanta Barman, a young man of 29 is the district unit secretary of the Party for Democratic Socialism (PDS). He is the first candidate of Cooch Behar Parliamentary constituency who submitted his nomination on the very first day. Mr Barman said he would start an indefinite hunger strike in front of the office of the district magistrate on and from 14 April. About thirty PDS supporters are to accompany him.

 

Today, Mr Barman met the outgoing Forward Bloc MP Mr Hiten Barman at his Mathabhanga residence and sought his blessings. He will also go to seek blessings from district Congress president Mr Biren Kundu, senior Congress leader Mr Shyamal Choudhury, district Trinamul Congress president Mr Rabi Ghosh and senior CPI-M leaders. "I like to start my poll battle armed with the blessings of the experienced political leaders", he said.

 

As he is an eminent impresario of north Bengal, Mr Barman has to go to Kolkata very often but the journey is not very smooth due to lack of air service from Cooch Behar Airport. "During my hunger strike my priority demand will be restoring of Cooch Behar-Kolkata air service because without the air service Cooch Behar will continue to remain as a backward district. It is also essential to boost up industrialisation in this region", he said.

 

He will also demand permanent measures to save people from the river erosion menace.

Setting up of a mini-Writers Building at Cooch Behar, resuming of Cooch Behar-Kolkata railway service through Bangladesh via Gitaldaha, resolving the problems of PTTI students and setting up units of heavy industries to provide jobs to the unemployed youths of the region are also among other demands the PDS candidate is going to raise.

 

Holding of a cultural extravaganza at Rabindra Bhavan a few days before the polling date is also on the pipeline, Mr Barman said.

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