Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is in power in the State for the last 10 years, on Saturday claimed that if voted to power for the third consecutive term his Government would remove all the shortcomings left by Congress during its 50 years rule in the State.
Chouhan was addressing a public meeting in Tikamgarh district of Bundelkhand region where his ongoing Jan Ashirwad Yatra reached on Saturday. lashing out at the Congress, the Chief Minister said that the Congress gave darkness but the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government in the State would not let live the State in darkness. “Our 10 years rule in the State is tenfold more beneficial for Madhya Pradesh then the 50-year long rule of Congress”, he added.
Chouhan said that the Congress has nothing to do with the development. Earlier in the morning he started his Bundelkhand phase of the Jan Ashirwad Yatra by offering prayers to lord Rama at Orchha and started his Yatra that was accorded warm welcome from Nivadi to Tikamgarh. Chouhan establishing direct contact with the people in public meeting said, “During the BJP rule in the State unprecedented works have been done to ensure that no one would sleep hunger, no one would die due to non availability of treatment, everybody should have house and everyone should get equal opportunity of development and progress.”
Chouhan further said that the promises made by the BJP have been fulfilled. To make agriculture profit making business the state government provided interest free loan to the farmers and bonus of Rs 150 per quintal on wheat and paddy to the peasants. To ensure that no one sleeps hungry in the State, the government buys wheat at Rs 15 per kg and distributes it to poor at Re 1 per kg, Rs 2 per kg rice and iodized salt at the rate of Re 1 per kg. Pattas of the land where poor people are living would also be provided to them, he added.