27-04-2025
Will launch signature campaign from CM's village on May 11: PK
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Patna/Biharsharif:
Jan Suraaj Party
founder
Prashant Kishor
(PK) on Sunday announced that he would launch a one crore
signature campaign
demanding answers on unfulfilled govt promises, starting from Kalyan Bigha, the native village of CM Nitish Kumar in Nalanda district, on May 11.
Speaking to the reporters at Biharsharif on his way to Harnaut to address a public meeting, Kishor said, "The signature campaign will focus on three points – what happened to the Nitish govt's promise of giving Rs 2 lakh each to the 94 lakh poor families, 3 decimal of land to the Mahadalit families and corruption in the ongoing land survey."
He said while much is often claimed about development in Nalanda, he wanted to verify firsthand whether villagers in Kalyan Bigha had indeed received the promised money, or whether they too faced corruption at every step, from obtaining ration cards to acquiring land-related documents from block offices. "If corruption exists even in the CM's village, then what can be said about the rest of Bihar?" he added.
Earlier this month, Kishor had said that a Jan Suraaj Party delegation would collect signatures from one crore people across 40,000 villages between May 11 and July 11. The signatures would then be submitted to the governor and the CM if the govt failed to disclose within a month the status of delivering Rs 2 lakh to each of the 94 lakh poor families identified in the caste survey and of providing land to the landless.
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Addressing a meeting at Harnaut as part of the Jan Suraaj Udghosh Yatra, Kishor alleged that corruption was rampant in Bihar. "In Bihar, officers and leaders are taking bribes for everything from making ration cards to getting land receipts. Next time, vote by looking at the faces of your children and not on the faces of Lalu, Nitish and Modi. Do not vote for the leaders who loot you and your children," he urged.
The assembly elections in Bihar are due in Oct-Nov this year.
Responding to the threat of a defamation case by JD(U) leader and minister Ashok Choudhary on Saturday, Kishor said no lawsuit or FIR could intimidate him. The former poll strategist added that he operated with complete transparency and reiterated his allegations of widespread corruption, including accusations involving Choudhary's daughter and the sale of tickets.
"They can file defamation cases and FIRs as many times as they want. Do you think Prashant Kishor is someone who is afraid of anyone? We are not sand or liquor mafias nor holding any govt post. We have been running this campaign openly for three years without even a constable with us. No one can say I have taken a single penny from anyone. I am not abusing anyone. We said that jobs were being sold through BPSC. Who doesn't know this? People everywhere discuss that money is being taken openly for land survey," he alleged.
