Congress displays power in CM’s constituency

Raipur, December 01

After its massive workers’ rally in newly formed Balod district, the Congress displayed power in Chief Minister Raman Singh’s legislative constituency on Thursday. Senior party leaders slammed the government for its failure to give good governance and appealed to the workers to unite and prepare for upcoming Vidhan Sabha polls in 2013.

Taking a dig at the government, the state Congress incharge BK Hariprasada said the people of Chhattisgarh were compelled to live in dejected condition due to wrong policies of the BJP. “Thousands of tribal girls are becoming victim of human traffickers but the government does not know where they have vanished. The state is misusing the Central funds meant to deal naxals. Even corruption dominates the Centrally-sponsored schemes like MNREGA, PMGSY,” he alleged.

The PCC president Nandkumar Patel said the government had become hub of scams. He challenged the CM and asked him to answer his three questions – the total fund provided by the Centre to the state government in last eight years, the number of farmers’ suicidal cases during BJP’s two tenures and the places where 3.5 percent of the total tribals migrated. Patel said the CM should reply in fifteen days.

The CLP leader Ravindra Choubey said the BJP government had decided to sell water, land and forests of Chhattisgarh. “Corruption is ubiquitous and every department is full of scams. This government is anti-people and pro industrialists,” he said adding that the Congress would uproot BJP from power in 2013 Assembly elections.

Senior party leader and legislator Ajit Jogi said the CM had neither done anything for the state nor for his own Assembly constituency. “Rajnandgaon is known as nursery of our national game hockey. However, the CM could not even provide an astro turf ground for the players in this region in past eight years of his regime. The BJP speaks volume about provisions like unemployment allowance, Rs 270 bonus to farmers, etc but do nothing for the people. It only knows to deceive,” Jogi said.

The meeting was attended by Devvrat Singh, Satyanarayan Sharma, Arun Vora, Mohammad Akbar, Uday Mudliyar, Bhajan Singh Nirankari, Dr Renu Jogi, Naresh Dakalia, etc.