Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh called on the people to embark on new saga of development by joining the Rajyotsava, the day of formation of the Chhattisgarh State — November 1, on the pious occasion of Dhanteras. He was extending his greetings to the people of Chhattisgarh which completed 13 years of its existence, Thursday evening.
In his message issued on the eve of State Formation Day, the Chief Minister said that the new Chhattisgarh State has completed its 13 glorious years of formation and would chug on the 14 year of success on Friday.
Singh said, “It is a historic occasion that remembers us the historic contribution of the popular leader of the BJP and the then Prime Minister of India Atal Behari Vajpayee, who, fulfilling the promise made to the people of Chhattisgarh, for relieving this region from the regional imbalance and the pain of backwardness, has given it the status of a separate State in the year 2000.”
He said that the new Chhattisgarh state was the biggest and historic gift to the people of the state from Atal Behari Vajpayee and the BJP. He said that the people of the state, in the first assembly election in 2003, had given historic mandate to the BJP to form the Government in the State. During the last 10 years, the State Government, with the cooperation and support of the people, had made significant efforts to take the new State to the new heights of development, in accordance to the dreams of Atal ji, he said.
It has resulted into the glittering of prosperity with a new hope in the life of each class of the society including village, poor, farmer, labourer, student, teacher, employees and businessperson, he said. Raman Singh assured the people of the state that with their fulsome cooperation and support the state would progress ten times more in the coming five years, than the last 10 years. The Chief Minister on the occasion wished well-being and prosperity to all people of the State.