GARHWA: Shakti Singh, the founder of 24Hours CT Scan, has made a powerful appeal to voters in Garhwa ahead of the municipal elections, urging them to reject caste-based politics and demand genuine development.
Singh, who established 24Hours CT Scan to provide round-the-clock diagnostic services to Garhwa and surrounding areas, has built a reputation for serving the community through healthcare. He now extends that commitment to civic life, calling for a city that is clean, safe, and dignified. “Just as timely medical care can save lives, timely civic action can save our city,” Singh said.
This election is a public uprising and a clear call for change,” Singh declared. “Do we want the same old caste politics again, the same corrupt leaders again, the same flooded streets and dark city again? Or do we want a Garhwa that is clean, safe, organized, and dignified?
In his address, Singh described the election not as a contest for a chair, but as a struggle for basic civic rights. He pointed to the daily hardships faced by residents: dusty roads, broken footpaths, stagnant drains, flooded streets during monsoons, garbage heaps, foul-smelling open sewers, and unsafe dark alleys. He emphasized that women and children feel unsafe in such conditions, while ordinary citizens suffer from irregular drinking water, contaminated supply, power cuts, and faulty street lights.
Markets, he noted, are suffocated by illegal encroachments and chaotic traffic, trapping patients, schoolchildren, and workers. Families long for clean public toilets, better healthcare facilities, organized bus stands, and safe parks.
Singh criticized decades of divisive politics that reduced citizens to vote banks based on caste and religion. “Citizens were seen not as people, but as castes. Neighborhoods were seen not as problems to be solved, but as votes to be counted. Development was treated not as duty, but as bargaining,” he said. He called this election a “historic fight against divisive politics” that has kept Garhwa from progress.
Positioning himself against corruption and commission-driven governance, Singh framed the election as a decisive battle between disorder and order, negligence and responsibility, self-interest and public interest. He described the current system as inactive and corrupt, offering only broken roads, dirty water, and dark alleys.