Providing security to people is the prime responsibility of any State Government and in that task the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh has failed abysmally, testimony to which is the May 25 Jeeram carnage which wiped out entire State leadership of Congress, charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday.
He further said, “Such a slack Government did not deserve coming back to power in a tribal-dominated State like Chhattisgarh,’’.
The BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh goes to polls in two phases on November 11 and 19 to elect a new 90-member Assembly. The Congress is out of power in the State since December 2003.
Addressing a convention of Congress workers at the Budhapara Indoor Stadium here, Singh took Chhattisgarh’s BJP Government to task for “misleading people” on various Central welfare schemes as well as its failure to use funds sanctioned for containing the insurgency.
He also chided the BJP leaders for using foul languages against leaders of other political parties blaming them of transgressing the political decorum.
“Some leaders of BJP are using foul language against our leaders and CMs. This is just for cheap publicity.” the Prime Minister remarked.
Counting the achievements of his Government, he said that the progress made by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government during the last nine years was unparalleled.
Paying tribute to party leaders and workers killed in the Jeeram Valley Maoist attack, the PM said, “such attacks cannot deter us from our path.”