Title - TMC takes on ruling Congress in Meham

Rohtak: Taking the ruling Congress head-on, the newly set up state unit of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has claimed that the state government has failed to come up to the expectations of the masses on various fronts.Announcing that the TMC will emerge as a political alternative, it has called upon the people to reject all those, including the ruling party, for “promoting” corruption and denying people the basic amenities of water and power in the state even after 46 years of its creation.“Holding its first public meeting in Meham recently, the move has sprung a surprise for many as the TMC was yet to establish its identity in the state and was still in the process of its formation,” claimed Raj Singh, a political analyst.He, however, added that the development was perhaps due to the involvement and interests of some of the locals and political aspirants, who had been feeling bottled up due to various factors, including resentment over lack of pace of development in the region, though it was claimed that the region had been getting a preferential treatment due to its being the home district of the Chief Minister.Shamsher Singh Kharkara, a vibrant political activist and who may have been a force to help the TMC to hold its first meeting under the guise of organising a wrestling event here, said Meham was not averse to other political forces as it was itself a victim of “poor” development. Kharkara, who contested the last Assembly election from Meham against the ruling party candidate, said Meham came last of all the Assembly constituencies in the state in the matter of development and added that the voters of the constituency had been feeling cheated as not a single development project had been launched here during the past several years.

Regarding the proposed rail line between Meham and Hansi, the TMC MP, KD Singh, said there had been certain lacunae in the project report.

He added that it was the TMC that would be carrying out the work as the Railway Minister belonged to the TMC.

Coming down heavily on both the ruling and the main Opposition party, the INLD, he said none of the governments in the past had cared to provide even water and power supply to the people and had been misleading them on the issue of employment.

He said the TMC would contest the next elections in the state and would provide voters an alternative to the people who were fed up with false promises and failures on part of the successive state governments so far.