Raipur, November 16
Castigating BJP government for failing to contain Maoism, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday compared Chhattisgarh with Jammu and Kashmir and said while violence and fear was much more in tribal-populated State than in valley.
“The BJP leaders talk of terrorism in the country, but pose mysterious silence over Maoism in State. Fear has pervaded the entire region. The amount of violence here is much more than any other state in the country. Majority of its districts are affected by insurgents. It is surprising that the BJPians cannot see this glaring fact,” said Gandhi while addressing huge crowd at Budhapara-based outdoor stadium in Raipur.
Gandhi, who reached State capital almost three and a half hour late by scheduled time of 1:30 pm after holding two rallies in Kharsia and Surajpur, looked impressed by the turnout in his rally and hence straightaway raised May 25 Darbha incident in Bastar and said several frontline leaders of his party became victim of naxals due to BJP government’s negligence towards their security.
Alluding to BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi’s development talks he said it was an irony that the top brasses of saffron party never utter anything about terror in the State and prefer to cling to development rhetoric.
He further said the BJPians shout aloud of corruption at Centre but never see even an iota of it in Chhattisgarh. “Let them ignore these happenings but the people here are observing everything from coal blocks allocation to women harassment cases to unemployment,” he added.
He pointed that corruption loomed so large in the State that chief secretary had to express his annoyance overtly and point fingers at one minister.
He alleged that the BJP was against Centre’s ambitious new land acquisition bill and it even tried to dissuade the government from tabling the bill in the parliament. “A rich person can get market rate of his land, but not a poor man. Through new land acquisition law, we wanted the poor to get his fair share. Now the poor and farmers will get fourfold of their land rates,” he added.
He said Right to Information (RTI) was another revolutionary bill passed by the UPA government in the parliament. “The RTI enables a person to ask anything from the government. Now the close door talks of the government are open for public through this law,” he stated.
He said the Congress wanted to build roads, bridges, airports but not at the cost of dignity of the people.
Interacting with the crowd he asked whether the youth in the State got job under two terms of BJP and the answer was “no”.
He said with second phase of polls in State scheduled on November 19, the Congress would form government of aam aadmi, youth and women. “We will bring your money and lands back,” he said.
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