Promises made by the Congress have been proved hollow and the party has failed on all the fronts in the past 10 years of its reign, said Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while addressing an election meeting at Sagar on Thursday.
CM Chouhan claimed that the Congress failed to contain inflation, improving conditions of poor and the 7.5 crore population of Madhya Pradesh has been deprived of the rights in the past 10 years.On the contrary, under the BJP rein, the State has gained enormous growth and development and has achieved new feats in the field of agriculture but the driving force for growth could not be used effectively without the help of the Central Government and for a strong and efficient Central Government vote for BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi who would help in accelerating the growth in the State and would free the country from inflation and corruption.
He addressed the election meetings in Shahgarh and Devri under Sagar lok Sabha constituency and during the meeting he appealed to make mission 29 a success.The Congress has become directionless and lacks far sightedness for the growth and development of the country. The people of the country are disappointed with the Congress which being in the power for the past 6 decades has failed to deliver.
Negligence towards the farmers of the State is not acceptable and has lost the right to raise issue of well being of farmers, he added.Praising his Government, Chouhan told that compensation package of Rs2,000 crores has been sanctioned for the calamity hit farmers and which would be distributed with the permission of election commission.
He also assured that the compensation from the insurance companies would also be given.The Minimum Support Price (MSP) is Rs1,550 which is highest in the country as in other states the MSP is around Rs1400.A fixed bill of Rs1200 for pumps used for irrigations has been set which provides freedom of high electricity bills generated earlier.