Kosal Dal to launch Kranti Yatra from January 23

The Pioneer, Jan 22, 2009
PNS | Balangir

Encouraged by the response of the Kosal Mukti Jatha undertaken earlier, the Kosal Kranti Dal (KKD) is going to launch its month-long Kosal Kranti Yatra from the birthday of freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai on Friday in six Parliamentary constituencies, Balangir, Bargarh, Phulbani, Sundargarh, Kalahandi and Sambalpur to sensitise people about the neglect of this region by successive State Governments and the need to form a separate Kosal State.

Announcing this at a news conference here on Tuesday, KKD president Pramod Mishra said the Kosal Kranti Yatra is scheduled to be flagged off from Harishanakr on Friday and it would cover at least 1,000 villages in the six Parliamentary constituencies in course of a month.

Mishra alleged that the main reasons for the backwardness of this region are total neglect by successive administrations in Bhubneshwar and a strange “follower attitude” of the political representatives of the region, who after being elected, sub-serve the interests of their political parties and bosses more than the interests of the region.

The KKD, which is the only party fighting for the cause of the area, believes that only creation of a separate Kosal State is the answer to the problems of the region as it would help preserve the dignity, language and culture of the area, Mishra said. District-level committees have been formed to make the Yarta successful and Baidyanath Mishra has been given the charge of Balangir district, he said. Baidyanath Mishra said he would endeavour to discharge the responsibilities given by the party to him.

It may be noted that the Kosal Kranti Dal has proposed to contest in the six aforesaid Lok Sabha constituencies and 47 Assembly seats in the forthcoming elections.