The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh is gearing up to fight the upcoming Assembly elections on development plank and is also alleging misrule by the Congress when it was in power in the State for 10 years.
However, the main opposition party has rejected the development claims of the BJP and maintained winds of change are blowing in the state, where the saffron outfit is in power since 2003. The BJP is specifically targeting senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh, who headed the party government from 1993 to 2003, reminding people about the days when Madhya Pradesh was regarded as a BIMARU state.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in his public meetings during ongoing Jan Ashirvad yatra, never leaves opportunity to accuse the 10-year-regime of Digvijay Singh government alleging that no development works took place then.
The BJP has brought out a lot of written material, including two booklets, to underline its development credentials and list welfare programmes launched by the government in the last 15 years.
The two booklets are titled ‘Dawe Nahin Pramaan’ (proof can't be suppressed) and ‘15 Saal Vikas Ke, Jan-Jan Ke Vishwas Ke’ (15 years of development).
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who embarked on his 73-day long Rs Jan Ashirwad Yatra' from Ujjain on July 14, has often targeted Singh.
Recently, at Panna on July 26, Chouhan attacked Singh for once addressing slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin laden as ‘Osama-ji’. “Those who have remarked against martyred police official Mahesh Chandra Sharma (during the 2008 Batla House encounter) and termed dreaded terrorist Osama Bin laden as Osamaji should think on their own that who is a patriot and who is a terrorist," the CM had said.