Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan and State organisational general secretary Arvind Menon kicked off the party’s campaign for the Ratlam-Jhabua by-election with the Ratlam rural party workers convention on Sunday.
Chouhan addressing the parliamentary workers on the occasion said, “Popular leader and the voice of Madhya Pradesh and country’s Tribal community got quiet with the timely death of late Dilip Singh Bhuriya. By-elections are our compulsion. With the consent of party workers his daughter Nirmala Bhuriya has been made party’s candidate and we are hopeful that workers of the constituency in order to strengthen the hands of revolutionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and public oriented policies of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan would make her victorious with big margin.”
Chouhan further said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee brought transport revolution in the rural areas of the country by initiating Prime Minister Rural Roads Scheme. The success of this scheme could be seen now through easy approach to even the remote villages besides the light of development has also reached in the remote rural areas of the country, he added.
He said that PM Modi has fulfilled the commitment of water for every field by launching cent percent irrigation scheme. The victory of Nirmala Bhuriya would strengthen the hands of PM Modi and CM Chouhan while she would work as bridge of the people of constituency between New Delhi and Bhopal, he added.
He said that Congress remained in power for over five decades but it never remembered irrigation of the farmer’s fields and roads of the villages. BJP pioneered for village, poor, farmers, youth and women’s empowerment as soon as it assumed power in the state and country, he added.
He called on the party workers to reach villages and establish contact with every voter of the constituency to make Nirmala Bhuriya victorious.