Outlook speaks with Sudesh Mahto about the challenges of the triangular fight in the Jharkhand elections. Priorities discussed include local governance, administrative reforms, and development. Concerns about the party’s limited influence in the Chotanagpur region are addressed, along with plans to expand its reach. The focus remains on transparency, tackling regional issues, and envisioning growth for Jharkhand.
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00:00This time, it is being said that Sudesh Mehto is facing a tough challenge because it is a tricolour battle.
00:05Sudesh Mehto, where do you find yourself in this tricolour battle?
00:08Look, I never get entangled in the words of general politics.
00:12For me, the elections are every day.
00:14I am talking about my constituency.
00:16So, I am in the middle of the elections every day and so are my workers.
00:19When a candidate stands up, no one is ready.
00:2216 people are fighting.
00:24They will be eligible for some or the other vote.
00:27So, that is not the issue.
00:28Here, people are very determined.
00:31Our election is a blessing for the people.
00:33And this blessing is ready with the hope that in the future,
00:37what new things will Sudesh Mehto bring here?
00:40This is the hope of the people.
00:41In the 2019 elections, you fought for more than 50 seats.
00:45This time, it was being said that the alliance of ASSO will be with the BJP.
00:51But this 15-seat negotiation, what happened suddenly that you agreed on 10 seats?
00:57This time, we did not agree on anything.
01:00After the 2019 elections, both the parties decided to form an alliance and work together.
01:07Due to this, there was not only a split of two parties, but there was also a split of the state.
01:12So, the state was a priority for us.
01:14Keeping this priority in mind, we all took seats and did not allow any debate to take place.
01:20Yes, there is a desire that it would have been better if I could fight for so many seats.
01:24Why is this?
01:25Because we prepare on the basis of the candidate.
01:28My candidate is already announced at every election.
01:31Who will come to the elections?
01:32And if this does not happen, there is a chance that the candidate who has worked in the party for 5 years,
01:37will not be able to participate in the elections.
01:40Sudesh Mehto's party is fighting the elections alongside the Bharatiya Janata Party.
01:46But there are many issues on which your party has a different direction.
01:50Like the Khatiyan of 1932, the Sarnath Dharma Code.
01:54The Bharatiya Janata Party is behind this.
01:56So, if you come to power in the future, how will you deal with these issues?
02:00Look, we have issued two announcements.
02:02As a regional party, we have gathered the objectives of the state together.
02:08We have given priority to the right to water, forest and land for the security of the state.
02:14We have kept something regional in the interest of our state.
02:16On a national scale, the BJP has kept its subject matter in national thought.
02:21As far as the Sarnath Code is concerned, we are talking about the last survey settlement.
02:27Because the survey did not happen at all places, that is why we have kept this proposal.
02:30So, the last survey settlement should be the basis of our introduction.
02:33We have agreed to this and it is in our resolve.
02:35And they have seen our resolve.
02:37We have seen each other's resolve.
02:39And both will move forward together.
02:42There will be harmony and on the basis of harmony, we will bring the best needs of the state with the people.
02:48You are considered a youth icon.
02:51When you came to politics in the beginning, you were called the youth icon of India.
02:56A magazine even gave you a title.
02:58Now, this title is being given to a young leader who has come out of a dilemma.
03:03Don't you feel that he is coming from your parallel race?
03:07Your parallel race, when you used to do aggression in the beginning, you are doing that type of politics.
03:13There are some similarities.
03:15For example, both of you came out of an aggression.
03:18So, it is being said that the biggest challenge, I am talking about Jairam Mehto,
03:22the biggest challenge is Jairam's party and Jairam Mehto for Sudesh Mehto and Assu.
03:27I feel that there is a lot of difference in understanding and seeing the concept.
03:31Where you connect with the movement, what is the analysis of the movement?
03:35You don't understand which movement you are talking about.
03:38Jharkhand movement, where for more than 10 years,
03:41we have spent a lot of time as an activist, as a freedom fighter,
03:45you cannot directly analyze that.
03:47Today's generation cannot analyze that time.
03:50And today's time, what is the form of this movement?
03:54I don't know what is the perspective of today's view, what is the perspective of my media?
03:57I don't know.
03:58But the whole Santal, the whole Kulhan, the whole of our Chittanagpur,
04:04you will find one soldier in each of their houses,
04:07who was ready to humiliate himself for Jharkhand.
04:10If you look at those 10 years, then Jharkhand movement is not an ordinary fight.
04:15Jharkhand movement was fought for the country as a freedom.
04:20Like the fight for the country was fought, like the fight for freedom,
04:23the people of Jharkhand fought on the same level.
04:25That is why we say that this country was not given as a gift,
04:28it was given through the struggle of Jharkhandis.
04:30And there is such a big story of struggle, which is like a book,
04:33if you read it, you will know to what extent people have fought for this country.
04:39And there is the political aspect.
04:41Now this time, on any topic, on any person, I personally understand,
04:46there is no time to talk comparatively.
04:49We are in the politics of vote, the journey of politics of vote has been 20 years.
04:53In this 20-year journey, understanding people, understanding people's feelings,
04:58working according to that, winning people's feelings by controlling words in the context of a constitution,
05:04and in a democratic process, you will read our work and statement in the form of a ministerial committee or administration.
05:12That is why people believe it completely.
05:15We start from zero, people analyze the journey from there to here.
05:21You are accusing Jairam that he is spreading a lot of terrorism,
05:24and he is doing terrorism politics.
05:26Jairam is saying something about you.
05:28He is saying that the people of the area wanted to see Sudesh Mehto as a leader,
05:35but he has become an officer, he has become a hero.
05:38So I want to know that how can this co-ordinator be Sudesh Mehto?
05:43Now I saw that you are speaking in the original language,
05:46but have you ever seen the traditional clothes in the kurta-pajama?
05:51Look, I will tell you directly, I don't know who is doing what, what is the comment of whom.
05:56I don't see or talk to anyone in words.
06:00You have brought your words here.
06:02I have never targeted any leader in my entire career.
06:09I have a lot of my own subject.
06:11Except for development, I understand people's progress and democratic processes,
06:17and then take things forward according to that.
06:20It is exactly like my fashion.
06:22If you go to my style, then Sudesh Mehto is still a pro-sportsman.
06:28You will get everything in the same style.
06:30I am in the field of sports, football and cricket.
06:34Both the fields are still my favorite.
06:36And I said that we don't need to come in any traditional attire to serve politics.
06:43I work with the attire that suits me.
06:48When it comes to challenging Sudesh Mehto,
06:51it is the youth who can challenge Sudesh Mehto and defeat him.
06:54And we saw this in 2014.
06:57It is said that Sudesh Mehto has done a lot of work in Silli.
07:01But a youth stands up and defeats Sudesh Mehto in the 2014 elections in the alliance.
07:06Then there is the election, and he defeats him in the elections as well.
07:10Defeat and victory.
07:12You can never argue that there is only one reason for this.
07:16Indira Gandhi lost while being the Prime Minister.
07:19This happens.
07:21When you try to understand people,
07:23or the time we spend with people,
07:26there is a shortage somewhere.
07:28So sometimes people have this kind of decision.
07:31Defeat and victory is a common thing in politics.
07:34This will work.
07:35But in the end, when there will be a personal discussion,
07:38the one for whom I was made, the one for whom they elected the MLA,
07:41in that even today, no matter who wins or loses,
07:44only Sudesh Mehto is fit for the development here.
07:49It is said that Sudesh Mehto is the biggest politician.
07:53But if you talk about 5 years,
07:55there have been many politicians in Kurniyog.
07:58Jairam himself.
07:59I feel that you look at things like this.
08:02Whatever is of caste,
08:04your point of view,
08:05your outlook,
08:07you are talking about being of that caste.
08:09I have never done politics on a particular caste.
08:12People start thinking just by being of caste.
08:15This is people's own guess.
08:17I think of the total tribe,
08:19total SC,
08:20total OBC,
08:22and total others too.
08:24Sudesh Mehto thinks for everyone.
08:26As a politician, I never get the permission
08:29that you have to stay in a circle.
08:31You have to bring the thought of a circle.
08:33When I lead the state,
08:34every citizen who comes in the circle of the state
08:36is a part of Sudesh Mehto.
08:38And for that, Sudesh Mehto has to work.
08:40There are some Muslim leaders in your party
08:43who are uncomfortable with BJP's campaigning.
08:45Whether it is about changing the name of the city
08:47or if you divide, you will cut.
08:49Like the slogans of this politics.
08:51How do you see this campaigning in Sudesh Mehto?
08:54Wherever I go, my party is there.
08:57The people there have faith
08:59that Sudesh Mehto will come,
09:01his party will come,
09:02then there will be development in my area.
09:04No one thinks of anything else.
09:06Because the thing that I have established,
09:08the topic on which I have introduced myself,
09:10that is the topic for me in today's day and age.
09:13If the government becomes the NDA alliance,
09:16what will be the role of your party?
09:18I am fighting for the 81st assembly.
09:21We are not counting NDA as 1, 10 or 60.
09:24My fight is in the entire state and in the 81st assembly.
09:27NDA will win and come.
09:28On the basis of our priorities,
09:30we will move forward in the work of the people.
09:32GMM also raises a local issue.
09:34ASSU also raises a local issue.
09:36There is a difference.
09:37Will it ever happen in the future
09:39that both these parties are formed as a government?
09:41For now, they have no intention.
09:43God has given Arkan Mukti Morcha
09:45the opportunity to take a vote in this state 5 times.
09:48The father and son have got 5 chances.
09:50There is no position where these people have not sat.
09:53But the intention with which this state should come,
09:56the locality with which it should come,
09:58the local issues with which it should come,
10:00not a single local issue has been solved.
10:02These people want to keep the issues alive.
10:04My difference is that we want to end the issues.
10:06You were also accused of the national game scam.
10:10It was said that the strong connection of Sudesh Mehto
10:14is also because he is very close to Amit Shah.
10:18Look, I have nothing to do with the subject you want to keep.
10:24Our connection is definitely our organization.
10:28We respect each other.
10:31And it should not be seen that way.
10:33You will see that even before this,
10:35when these governments did not exist,
10:37the government of the Congress is accused of Arkan Mukti Morcha.
10:40The government of the Congress is accused of Lalu Jadhav.
10:42These incidents would have happened at that time.
10:44So we should ask them who gets sanctioned in which government.
10:47I have made a rule in my life that
10:49the work I do will be transparent and honest.
10:52Talks will run.
10:53We are in politics.
10:54We are in mud.
10:55So definitely talks will keep happening.
10:57People will keep making.
10:58But what is right is in front.
11:00What will be the road map of Sudesh Mehto?
11:02What will be the road map of Sudesh Mehto after coming to India?
11:04My announcement is on my road map.
11:06I have thought a lot about all these things.
11:09The change I want to bring,
11:11you will see my announcement of other parties.
11:13I will get very few regular things here.
11:15I am bringing some new things.
11:17And I want to make the public comfortable.
11:19We want to give the public a comfortable environment.
11:21And my biggest task is administrative reform.
11:24That administrative reform will come.
11:26And to make people feel that this is their government.
11:28You always say that you have had a natural alliance with BJP.
11:31But why did you get separated in the 2019 elections?
11:34And the time of Raghuvir, the last time of Raghuvir.
11:37I had brought the regional issues with me.
11:40Now on the regional issues,
11:42JNP is with them.
11:44I want you to tell us about the regional issues.
11:46All the regional issues,
11:47Location, planning,
11:48all these issues were there at that time.
11:50There were many other issues.
11:52There were many other issues about which there was a disagreement.
11:54I have talked about all those disagreements in a special way.
11:57All those disagreements have given their consent to the people of the state.
12:01I am moving forward.
12:02Sudesh Mehto, will there be a CM in the future?
12:04Will there be a CM or the public decides?
12:07And the Gadwandan decides.
12:09Why not?
12:10Why shouldn't there be a CM?
12:11It is said that Sudesh Mehto is close to a vote.
12:14He is close to a seat.
12:15He is close to the area of Chota Nagpur.
12:17I want to know that in the future,
12:19will Sudesh Mehto take his party forward even for the CM?
12:24Whoever wins the Gadwandan,
12:27I will see you serving in that area.