Overview

• Senior BJP figures including Babulal Marandi, Ravindra Kumar Ray and Champai Soren led demonstrations at all 264 block offices to decry alleged corruption, administrative collapse and a surge in violent crime.
• Activists submitted memoranda demanding action on pending pensions, unpaid Maiya Samman Yojana benefits, unfilled vacancies and corrupt housing scheme procedures.
• The party accused the state administration of allowing illegal sand mining by outsiders, penalizing villagers for local extractions and facilitating bribery in land and housing documentation.
• Protesters highlighted dilapidated block hospital infrastructure, inadequate roads and water services and farmers’ complaints over paddy being procured below the state’s announced support price.
• Babulal Marandi alleged that public sector jobs were being sold to outsiders while local youth remain unemployed, framing the hiring crisis as part of systemic governance failures.