USDA Party Courting Votes by Drilling Tube Wells

The USDA in Arakan State has been luring the Arakanese people to support the party in the upcoming election with a myriad of public projects, according to local reports.

Officials from the Union Solidarity Development Association party have been building clinics, libraries, schools, and water reservoirs in many rural villages around Arakan State in order to gain support from villagers for the election.

In Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, USDA officials have started a new program to mobilize people to support the USDA party. An elder from Ray New Su Ward in Sittwe said, "People in our ward are facing a water shortage this summer. So the USDA officials came to our ward and told us to construct a tube well. Now the drilling of the tube well is being constructed for four days. We may get water from the tube well very soon."

The USDA officials are now constructing tube wells not only in Ray New Su Ward, but also in other Sittwe wards to provide water in face of the shortage in order to gain people's support in the election.

Ko Lwin Maung, an active organizer in the USDA Sittwe Township, said, "USDA has planned to construct 20 tube wells in Sittwe before the coming rainy season to fulfill people's need for water. It is a plan of the USDA for public welfare. We would carry out much public welfare in Arakan State."

USDA officials in 17 townships in Arakan State are campaigning widely with programs to provide aid such as goods, rice, medicine, and clothes, to local villagers, but are not drilling tube wells.

The USDA has not yet formed the Arakan State-level committee, but it will reportedly be led by Transportation Minister Thein Swe and former army official U Kyaw San Hla.

The organization is hard at work on activities in Arakan State for the upcoming election with the cooperation of local government bodies.

Source :http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=2593

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