Touch voters’ feet to win polls: Marandi to workers

Bokaro: Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi, who came after pressure after many leaders and party workers quit, on Sunday asked his party workers to not hesitate to “touch the feet of the electorate” if that ensures victory.
Marandi, who was addressing a gathering in Dumka, said JVM(P) workers should begin campaigning and greet voters with ‘folded hands’.“Each and every worker should vow that they will bring victory to the party in respective polling booths. We should go to each house in our areas and meet residents with folded hands and even touch their feet asking them to vote for JVM(P) if they wanted development in state,” appealed Marandi to his party workers in meeting at Majdoor Ground in Bokaro.
JVM(P) is going through a dark phase before the assembly election with en masse defection and a faction of the party declaring merger with BJP at a time when Marandi had been criticizing his former party for poaching legislators.
On Sunday, hundreds of supporters from districts under North Chotanagpur division attended the meeting. Marandi and other party leaders discussed strategies for the upcoming election. He appealed cadres to start campaign from the grassroots level as the time has come to prove “the party’s worth”.
JVM(P) has decided to connect with voters effectively through social networking sites, SMSes and other modes of communication, besides public meetings and rallies.
Party workers have been asked to start SMS campaigning by each sending messages to at least 10 persons known to them. Marandi also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modiand his government for taking accolades for projects which were already mobilized.
“I remember that this was the second time when Modi has laid the foundation for a project, the foundation stone for which was already laid by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999. He would have appreciated the function if Modi would have inaugurated the project,” said Marandi.