The Congress on Thursday brought out a 22-point charge-sheet of 22 years’ rule against the State BJD Government and also posed five questions to the Central Government and sought answer from both ahead of the panchayat elections.
The Congress said the BJD and the BJP as two sides of a coin and there has been an unwritten alliance between them to hoodwink the people of Odisha.
While both are pitted against each other, they are working in coordination in Parliament. While on major issues the BJD is agitating over Central negligence in the State, its MPs are not questioning the Modi Government at the Centre and the BJP which is demanding CBI inquiry on every issue against the State Government, its MPs remain mum in Parliament, the charge-sheet said.
Releasing the charge-sheet, Congress State media in-charge for panchayat elections Manoj Mohapatra asked that if Odisha is progressing so much, why 20 lakh people from the Chief Minister's home district Ganjam are migrating to other States. If the CM is clean, why he is covering up crimes of his Ministers and bureaucrats?
He questioned the Modi Government on the spiralling price rise and why it closed the CBI inquiry into the chit fund scam and why there is no CBI probe into the Paradip iron ore smuggling and Black Rose issues.
The Congress also questioned the Modi Government why it is not announcing MSP Rs 2,930 for paddy and why the Neelachal Ispat Nigam is being handed over to a private company.
The charge-sheet against the BJD Government included the State’s debt burden increase to Rs 1.30 lakh crore and the per-capita loan rise to Rs 30,000. Besides, the State has become number-1 in crimes against women and children.
The Congress also questioned why even 35% land has not been irrigated in the State in last 22 years, why 10,000 schools are going to be closed and 63 lakh youths are jobless.