Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Madhya Pradesh is continuously moving on the path of development. He was addressing party legislators here at the BJP headquarters on Wednesday.
He said the State has emerged number one in the country on the economical growth rate, per capita income has registered an increase of 8.9 per cent, in the agricultural growth rate also the State has reached to historical high and if calculated at the current market value than the State's domestic production has increased to the tune of four folds.
Chouhan called on the party functionaries to observe the BJP's foundation day on April 6 as the development festival across the State. All the legislators should participate in the festivals in their respective constituencies and should provide splendor to the programmes of development. Informing the legislators about the Atal Jyoti Abhiyan, the CM said that electricity is most cheap in the state and further from next year onwards the power rates would be lowered by 5 per cent. Earlier, Chouhan along with the BJP president (SC-ST Cell) Phaggan Singh Kulaste, State president Narendra Singh Tomar, state organisational general secretary Arvind Menon and senior members of his cabinet paid floral tributes to Pandit Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Rajmata Scindia and Kushabhau Thakre and by lighting the traditional lamp opened the meet that was conducted by senior minister of the state cabinet Narottam Mishra. Tomar said that the first programme after constituting the State Executive was 'Maha jansampark abhiyan', the feedback of that after its conclusion is satisfactory.
As it is the election year so we should ensure that all the programmes of the party should be held in grand style so that more and more people could get associated with the party. Party programmes should be held at Panchayat and ward level, he added.
He said that on the foundation day of the party all the party workers and office bearers should hoist party flag at their respective places this would help prepare an atmosphere in favour of the party.
Menon said, "Through the 'Maha jansampark abhiyan' we got the feedback about the impression of the BJP government's work done during the past nine years besides that we reached up-to scheduled tribes. The programme also helped us in preparing the mood of the party workers for the coming assembly and parliamentary elections.