Jamshedpur, Oct 12 (PTI): Jharkhand BJP president and leader of opposition Babulal Marandi on Saturday termed the upcoming Ghatshila assembly bypoll a battle to save the state from "middlemen, corruption and powerbrokers." Addressing booth-level party workers at Gudabandha ground in Ghatshila, Marandi accused the Hemant Soren-led government of betraying the people while claiming to run an 'Abua Sarkar' (our government) for Adivasis and locals.

"Middlemen and mafias control every sector while development work has come to a standstill. Even poor people cannot get sand to build homes. When I was chief minister, sand was made free for all, but in 2013 when Hemant Soren became the CM, he handed sand ghats to brokers from Delhi, Mumbai and Bihar," he alleged.

He added that police now arrest vi

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