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Govt spending crores on celebrations while poor go without food in Jharkhand: Hemant

Ranchi, Nov 15 (UNI) Leader of the Opposition and former chief minister Hemant Soren today said that the government was spending crores of rupee on organizing cultural programmes on the occasion of state formation while several households were forced to sleep without food.
In a press statement issued here, which he addressed to the people of Jharkhand, Mr Soren said that the celebrations shows two faces of Jharkhand, one which is of corporate and riches who would be in attendance at the Morhabadi Grounds and the other would be workers, farmers, poor and unemployed youth.
He said that a large area of Jharkhand is grappling with drought as only 40 per cent sowing of paddy has taken place in the state and the farmers are in deep distress and not a single rupee of help has reached to them. The entire administration under the leadership of their ‘insensitive’ chief minister will be enjoying the cultural programmes in which crores of rupees have been spent.
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