The CPI(ML) and AIARLA took out a ‘Mukhyamantri Jawab Do’ (Chief Minister, respond to the questions) march in Muzaffarpur during Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ‘Nishchay Yatra’ (Decision Yatra). The march demanded answers from the Chief Minister on seven questions related to common people’s lives and running parallel to the seven ‘decisions’. The seven issues raised during the march included: land reforms and sharecroppers’ rights; land and housing for all poor; food security guarantee and large scale rigging in the ration lists; employment or Rs 5000 monthly unemployment allowance for all unemployed; arrangement and regular payment of Rs 5000 as pension under social security; regular work under MNREGA and ending of large scale cheating and corruption; increasing oppression and violence against dalits and poor; and rise in crimes against women; regularization of honorarium workers, school rasoiyas and ASHA workers. Large numbers of women and workers participated in the march.
