Chhattisgarh’s ruling BJP held a marathon meeting on Sunday here to chalk out plan to ensure victory for the fourth consecutive term in the mineral-rich state which goes to the polls for the 90-member Assembly next year.
The State Working Committee meeting was held here at state party headquarters Kushabhau Thakre Bhavan where top leaders including Chief Minister Raman Singh and State party chief Dharamlal Kaushik discussed in details about further strengthening the party organisation in order to check the rising influence of the Congress.
BJP joint general secretary Saudan Singh advised party leaders to take the development works of the Raman Singh Government to masses and brief them the welfare works and projects carried out by the State Government.
The meet also adopted a political resolution which stated that there was an atmosphere of enthusiasm and festivity among the people of state because of all-round development in state under the leadership of Chief Minister Raman Singh.
The state working committee thanked the Chief Minister for distributing Rs 2100 crore bonus amount to about 13 lakh farmers’ families this month for the paddy purchased under support price in year 2016.
“The faith of farmers in the State Government has further increased after Government provided massive bonus amount to them in cash and the farmers are glad and thankful to the Chief Minister”, the resolution read.
The bonus was a step forward in the direction to fulfil the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of doubling the income of farmers by 2022,’’ the text of the proposal said.