Keep your constituency offices open: Mathur tells BJP MPs

BJP national vice-president Om Mathur today asked elected representatives of Uttar Pradesh to ensure that their parliamentary constituency offices are kept open and common man's grievances are addressed regularly.
"During an interaction with MPs, Mathur said all efforts should be made to resolve complaints and in their absence prominent persons should sit in the offices," BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
State president Laxmikant Bajpai stressed that MPs should remain alert towards development works and make efforts to ensure that Central schemes reach common people in their respective areas, he said.
MPs from Bundelkhand, Kanpur and Awadh regions of the state had an interaction with Bajpai and Mathur, who is also the Uttar Pradesh in charge, the spokesperson said, adding the MLAs interacted with the leaders yesterday.

State general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal discussed organisational matters with the MPs.
"The MPs and MLAs said that public representatives were being ignored in implementation of schemes and complained that that UP government was discriminating in development schemes," Pathak said.

Discussions were held over the agitation to be held against the policies of SP government at tehsil level between June 24 to June 27 and at district level between June 29 to July 1, he said, adding BJP MPs would stage a dharna in Lucknow on July 4.
The MPs informed the two leaders about hike in power tariff and resentment among consumers over its availability in the state.

"They said the state government was doing politics over compensation to farmers and has disappointed the people on law and order front," he said, adding roads were in bad shape and at several places deliberate delay was being made on proposals given by MPs.
Pathak said that during the interaction, an action plan to retain the votes received during Lok Sabha elections and to increase the number was also discussed.