Congress MLA broadcasts 150 schemes hours earlier than EC introduced polls

The Election Commission of India introduced the schedule of upcoming meeting elections for 4 states and one union territory yesterday, and consequently mannequin code of conduct got here into drive instantly. The announcement by the ballot panel got here as a shock for many political events in Assam, because it was anticipated that dates shall be introduced within the first week of March, just like the final time. This sudden announcement forward of anticipation meant chilly water was poured on the plans of many politicians to announce to schemes forward of polls. But it didn’t deter one Congress MLA in Assam, who introduced as many as 150 schemes simply hours earlier than the EC held the press convention in Delhi to announce the election dates.
Sherman Ali, the Congress MLA from Baghbar in Assam, bought lively as quickly as media began reporting that the ballot panel will maintain a press convention at 4.30 PM on Friday to announce the dates. He hurriedly organized to put the muse stone for a document 150 completely different initiatives in his constituency, and he managed to finish the identical earlier than the EC press convention was began in Delhi.
MLA Sherman Ali achieved this distinctive feat by laying the muse stone for all of the 150 schemes in a single simply place, a High School in his constituency. The MLA organized to print banners for all of the 150 schemes, bought them held on ropes on the bottom of the college, and bought them coated with items of white garments. After reaching the college, he stored unveiling the banners by eradicating the quilt on them one after the other, thus launching the document variety of schemes inside a few hours.
Assam Congress MLA launches 150 schemes earlier than ballot dates are introduced
All the schemes that he has introduced are value round Rs 50 crore in whole. The schemes embrace a cultural complicated, gram panchayat workplace buildings, residences for feminine TET academics, social forestry schemes and so on.
“Today we have laid foundation stones of 150 projects in the Baghbar constituency. I hope, the proper implementation of these projects will boost the development of the constituency,” Sherman Ali Ahmed mentioned whereas speaking to media after the occasion.
While Sherman Ali labored in a battle footing to keep away from the mannequin code of conduct to announce schemes, his candidature just isn’t confirmed but. He has been some of the controversial MLAs in Assam, who had began an enormous controversy by demanding a ‘Miya Museum’ within the Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati. And media had requested what he proposes to maintain within the ‘Miya Museum’, he had prompt issues like blue lungi and inexperienced saree, usually worn by Bangladeshi Muslims in Assam. It could also be famous that the phrase Miya is used to consult with Bangladeshi Muslims residing in Assam, who immigrated into India each earlier than and after the partition.
The ballot dates got here as shock not just for the Congress MLA, but additionally for the BJP, as none aside from prime minister Narendra Modi had speculated that EC will announce the dates in March. Addressing a rally at Silapathar in Assam on twenty second February, PM Modi had mentioned that the dates for the Assam Assembly election are prone to be introduced by the Election Commission of India within the first week of March. He had made this prediction primarily based on the truth that in 2016, the dates have been introduced on 4th March.