BJP stages protest, submits memo

Central Chronicle News
Bilaspur, Sep 14: Demonstration and protest was held by BJP on issues related to farmers at many places here on Tuesday. During this Dharna in Takathpur was staged under leadership of Harshita Pandey. But in this as per the scheduled programme, no officer was present to receive the memorandum and due to which this dharna continued in the office itself for about an hour and it was only after submission of memorandum to the Tehsildar from Bilaspur that the dharna was called off.
BJP has already declared about VS-level dharna on the problems faced by the farmers in Takathpur. The BJP workers and leaders under leadership of Harshita Pandey reached dharna venue and after the dharna there were plans to hand over memorandum to SDM in the evening at around 4:00 pm. But at that time only the clerk was present.
On this BJP leader Harshita Pandey raised objections and said that as to why no officer from the department is present when it was already intimated. After this she staged dharna in front of vacant chair of the officer and said that till no officer reaches here, this dharna would continue. This particular step by the BJP leader received lot of support and got viral. The people were of the opinion that the representatives should take such bold steps against the system and its working, so that there are chances of improvement.
It is learnt that at that time there was no administrative officer present in Takathpur and finally Tehsildar from Takathpur arrived and received the memorandum and the dharna was called off.