As the voting continues across parts of 43 Seats of Jharkhand, Team Oneindia’s Pankaj and Keshav are at ground to analyze the ground mood. They spoke to multiple citizens and voters to understand what are the key issues, from infiltration to electricity… Here’s a wrap up of what can happen in Jharkhand.
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00:00This is Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand.
00:09There's a nip in the air and the people of Ranchi have already taken out their sweaters
00:14and sweatshirts to beat the cold.
00:17But needless to say, this bustling city has another sort of warmth in it, especially today
00:24when it comes to the first phase of elections for the Jharkhand Assembly elections.
00:2843 seats are voting today out of the 83 that we have here in total.
00:35Rest of the 40 seats will go to elections in the next phase.
00:38This is a special presentation from One India, from the heart of Jharkhand's capital, Ranchi.
00:44We are as of now at Doranda and the visuals that you see on your screen is of the iconic
00:51high court of Jharkhand, high court of Ranchi.
00:55And now we are here sitting at Kathmandu Tea Stall, one of a nondescript tea stalls here
01:02which primarily is run by a very kind lady who has served us this steaming hot cup of
01:10lemon tea.
01:25So, what are your expectations, what are your wishes, what are your aspirations?
01:32Along with that, Keshav, tell us, you have been travelling to different parts of Jharkhand
01:38for the past five days.
01:40If we talk about Ranchi for a little while, what kind of voter sentiment did you see in
01:45the surrounding areas?
01:46Yes, Pankaj, as far as I can understand, I feel that the sentiment of voters in Jharkhand
01:51is a little subdued.
01:52It is not very vocal.
01:53But the way we gauge people's views, their mood, I don't feel that there is a lot of
02:02anger against the Hemant Suresh government.
02:06Okay.
02:07But at the same time, there is a special group of people who have the hope that with the
02:14arrival of a double-engine government, development will be better.
02:19So, as far as I can understand, I feel that this election in Jharkhand is less about issues
02:26and more about ideology.
02:29Okay.
02:30However, the BJP has always been an attacker in election campaigns.
02:35In all the campaigns, Hemant Abhishek Sharma, who is the co-in-charge of Jharkhand, has
02:41raised the issue of land jihad, illegal infiltration in Bangladesh with a lot of force.
02:49And in some areas, especially in Jharkhand, there has been a slight appeal from the voters.
02:57There is a small fraction of them who feel that Jharkhand is all about their jungle land.
03:05Absolutely.
03:07So, they feel that people are forcibly occupying their land, coming from outside.
03:14And this external and internal sentiment that has been there in Jharkhand, it has been there
03:20for 20-25 years.
03:21It has not only been about Bangladeshi immigration, it has also been about the people of Bihar
03:26who are living here after partition.
03:28There are people from other states.
03:30So, they feel that land jihad is their first priority.
03:33And rightly so.
03:35Our Prime Minister also says, local for local.
03:39So, these are some issues that the BJP is trying to bring up.
03:44We have seen all the posters in the city, in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Saraikela, Pokharo,
03:51wherever we are going, Dalton Cut, all these places.
03:57So, the BJP has been successful in bringing up the sentiment.
04:01They have a nationalistic approach.
04:04Absolutely.
04:05They use all means to push the elections towards them.
04:09Everything is going on here as well.
04:12There is a little bit of anger towards the Suryans, but they are not angry.
04:17They don't feel that everything will change all of a sudden.
04:19Absolutely.
04:20So, in the urban areas, if you see, the BJP is targeting voters,
04:24they are talking about urban development.
04:27And in the current state of Ranchi,
04:29they feel that a lot of change is being made here.
04:35A hole is being dug every 200 meters.
04:37Preparations are being made to make flyovers.
04:39But when we asked people, what are these incomplete flyovers all about?
04:44They said, this is a flyover of politics,
04:47which has got entangled into the web of who done it,
04:51and whose responsibility is it anyway, sort of situation.
04:55And hence, Ranchi capital as of now is struggling.
04:58As far as Keshav, when you mentioned about the issues that BJP is trying to propagate here,
05:03one of them being the issue of infiltrators, you know, those who came from Bangladesh.
05:09But when it comes to Jharkhand, I have been staying in this state,
05:14I mean, I have stayed here, I have grown up here in the state of Jharkhand.
05:18And we saw the transition from Bihar to Jharkhand and what were the sentiments.
05:22Primarily, the people are not that much concerned about the influx.
05:27We talk about influx, we talk about infiltration, we talk about infiltration.
05:32But when it comes to Jharkhand, there are many states like Assam and West Bengal,
05:37where the direct impact has been seen more.
05:39Jharkhand, I will not say that it is not a worrying state,
05:43but still it is not a big issue here.
05:46Hemant Soren and JMM say that BJP is trying to polarize such issues.
05:52They want to create a gap in the society again.
05:55Especially the Bengali society, where they live in Kanta Toli,
05:58where I spoke to many people yesterday, I was looking at your report.
06:01Many people said that the entire locality of Godhpur was settled by Bangladeshi refugees.
06:07So they do not have a sour feeling about it.
06:09There is a mechanism here that addresses the refugees from Bangladesh.
06:16The Punjabi refugees from Pakistan, when the Shrikh community came here,
06:21a PP compound was set up to settle them too.
06:26So I think the main issue here is education and development.
06:33We have been roaming on these busy roads of Ranchi for the past 5 days.
06:36There is a lot of noise.
06:38This is a city that is competing with any tier 1 city.
06:41But the urban development in a planned way, we can see it somewhere in the background.
06:46C.P. Singh has been an MLA here for the past 25-26 years.
06:53He was also the Urban Development Minister and Urban Planning Minister.
06:56Many people have raised the question that if he had done things properly in his time,
07:00he would have been a People's Man.
07:02He participates in every small and big character.
07:05But somewhere or the other, this is what happened with the BJP government.
07:08They do come with the issue of development.
07:11But the work of development is somewhere in the cold.
07:14Definitely, Pankaj.
07:16As you said, if we talk about C.P. Singh, no doubt, his biggest USP is his accessibility.
07:24Anyone can approach him at any time.
07:28He is always ready for the local community.
07:35Many people love him.
07:38Down to earth, polite.
07:40All the good qualities of a good leader, he possesses.
07:44No doubt.
07:45As far as development is concerned, we can't say that because we have been to different states.
07:52The development of Ranchi has not happened all of a sudden.
07:55There is a vice that says that there is a lack of development here.
07:58The second vice is that the development of Ranchi or the development of the cities of Jharkhand
08:04has not happened because for the past 5 years, there has been another government.
08:09Not C.P. Singh's government.
08:11C.P. Singh is the MLA here.
08:14Catch-22 situation.
08:16The fact is, after Jharkhand is formed,
08:20I think Jharkhand will celebrate its 25th Foundation Day the day after tomorrow.
08:26So, for the past 25 years, the Indian People's Party has ruled here for a long time.
08:31And if they want to do things in a better way, then they don't have to go on all these rhetorics.
08:40Absolutely.
08:41In fact, the three states that were formed in 2000,
08:45Uttarakhand separated from UP, Chhattisgarh separated from Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand separated from Bihar.
08:55So, in all these states, BJP ruled for the longest time.
08:59And BJP could have taken full responsibility for the construction of the new state.
09:03BJP has taken responsibility, but BJP has lagged behind in developing it.
09:09What can I say?
09:11BJP has been more involved in popularity and propaganda.
09:14And now BJP has become a pattern.
09:17All the elections, now I think even the Panchayat elections, will be fought on the basis of nationalism.
09:24Absolutely.
09:25We spoke to a lot of such voters who said that the issues are not much here, but for nationalism.
09:30And the definition of nationalism is different for everyone.
09:33Anyway, this is a matter of voters and their personal choices.
09:37Keshav, on One India, the coverage of the first phase of the Jharkhand election will continue in this way.
09:44For the second phase, we will continue to send you ground reporting from Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
09:52For now, I, Pankaj Kumar Mishra and Keshav Karn, will take your leave.
09:57Don't miss out. Log on to OneIndia.com for more updates.
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