ROURKELA: With the election to the three-tier Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) slated for early next year, Congress, BJD and BJP in Sundargarh district have intensified their campaign to woo the rural voters.Party bigwigs have started bracing up to rejuvenate their organisations with the ZP polls being seen as a prelude to the 2014 general elections. Leading the pack are BJD Minister S P Nayak, Sundargarh MP Hemanand Biswal and State BJP chief Jual Oram. Stakes are high for the Congress to retain power in the 35-member Sundargarh Zilla Parishad (ZP) council. The BJD and the BJP are aiming to better their tally.Sources said aiming to dethrone the Congress-led ZP Council, Nayak has already met voters in 12 GPs of the Bonai sub-division, including the remote Koida block. The sub-division has eight ZP seats. Nayak asserted that BJD is the ultimate choice for its performance.Jual attended an executive body meeting of the Panposh organisational district of the BJP on Monday here and claimed the days of the BJD-led and the Congress-led UPA governments in the State and at the Centre were numbered.Even as Jual had lost to Hemanand in the last Lok Sabha election, he claimed that BJP would surprise everyone in the ZP polls. Hemanand with MLAs Yogesh Singh and Prafulla Majhi on Monday attended an executive meeting of the local Congress in Subdega block. He described Congress as the party of people and flayed the BJD for plundering mineral wealth of the State.
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