Jorhat, March 24: Liberal Democratic Party president and candidate for Jorhat legislative Assembly Constituency Prodyut Bora today kicked off his campaign in the rural belt here with the promise to enact a legislation which would lift them from poverty and bring back the lost glory of Jorhat.
Backed by Jaimini Bhagwati, former Indian High Commissioner to the UK and non-executive president of the party, LDP projects real development and zero tolerance towards corruption as the twin planks on which the party rests.
An alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and nominated for Yale World Fellow in 2013, Bora said he did not believe in big rallies and shouting slogans as a way to show one's strength.
"I believe in guerrilla tactics, the silent campaign like Arvind Kejriwal who had not addressed a single rally in Delhi, and then there is another example of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing 30 rallies and BJP president Amit Shah 90 in Bihar, yet the BJP lost. The main fight here will be between the Congress and the LDP. The BJP is not a factor at all. I believe I will win."
Regarding another perception that he was an outsider, an unknown face who would not be able to deliver, Bora said his house was here, he went to school here, and he had his voting rights here.
He questioned the voters that despite voting for the Goswamis - Hitendra Nath for three times in a row when he was with the AGP and Rana of the Congress two times in a row - how much had their lives actually changed in the past 25 years?
"Simply put what is the change in your status or that of your children in the past 25 years. What you need is not sops like threads and blankets and mosquito nets being doled out at regular intervals but proper legislation which will be a solution to the problems," Bora told groups of people he addressed them in a few gaon panchayats.
Bora said giving Rs 10,000 to Rs 40,000 for medical treatment to people, just went to show how much unaccounted money was going around. "To whom does this money belong?" he asked.
Referring to Hemendra Prasad Barooah and Krishna Kanta Handique, he said Jorhat was once the leader in the intellectual and economic spheres but today it was lagging behind. The LDP proposes to resurrect this lost glory. The present generation of students here lag behind the students of other districts, he said.
On his lack of connect with the populace at large, Bora was sanguine that there was no disconnect as people who believed in him had gone from door to door and covered more than 20,000 households in the past three months and got to know the problems which they faced and accordingly the party had built its strategy.
"I myself have been to 25 namghars in one village and interacted with the people," he said, adding that lots of people now recognised him.
Win or lose, he said, "The LDP is here to stay - a civil movement against the degeneration and corruption in politics - supported at present by 99 per cent of people who do not have a political background at all."
