AITC promises results within 100 days

Staff Reporter
ITANAGAR, Sept 25: If voted to power, the State unit All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has vowed to establish a full-fledged Inter-State Boundary department and abolish the practice of charging admission fees from students in government-run schools, set up municipalities for Itanagar and Naharlagan, check the unmonitored price index of essential commodities, establish an independent ADC headquarters at Poma and black top the Doimukh-Potin road.

This, the party said, would be completed within 100 days of its coming to power and dubbed it its ‘100 days commitment’ in its election manifesto released here today.

State unit president and sitting MLA Kito Sora, while releasing the manifesto, said the party has approved the nomination of 30 candidates on AITC ticket from various constituencies for the October 13 polls. He said 20 of its candidates have already filed their nominations, while the rest would do so by this evening. As per the election schedule, filing of nominations ends today.

Incidentally, the list of 30 AITC probables include six sitting MLAs who were discarded by the Congress for reasons kept under closet. Five former MLAs and ministers are also in the list. Representation of women candidates in the party, however, is minimal. It has fielded only three women candidates who happen to be wives of top State Government bureaucrats. Wife of Power Chief Engineer M Mara, Yai Mara, has been fielded from Likabali, while Duter Padu, wife of PHED Chief Engineer G Padu, and wife of Health Director Dr T Basar, Daktar Bassar, have been fielded from Aalo West and Basar respectively. When asked if the poll battle is against the ruling Congress, Sora negated it while claiming that as INC, AITC and NCP were partners at the Centre, they were ‘brothers’ in the State.

“This will be a friendly contest. We are not going into this election with bitterness against any party,” he said.

Sora pointed that ‘big brother’ INC cannot accommodate all able leaders in its fold, therefore, AITC would help it out by fielding these leaders from its own platform.

Exuding confidence of winning not less than 10 seats, the sitting MLA, who is not contesting this time, said majority of the people want change but are denied the opportunity. “This time with the entry of AITC, an ajibo-garib change is eminent,” he said.

Sora said that all the Union ministers of the party would come to the State to campaign, besides a senior MP would camp at the district headquarters where the party is putting up its candidates to oversee the electioneering. THE SENTINEL