BJP national secretary Trivendra Singh Rawat claimed on Saturday that the party would be able to snatch all five lok Sabha seats in the State. Rawat also expressed his concern over the Congress Government’s ‘rampant corruption’ and ‘lack of vision’ for the development in the State.
Speaking to mediapersons here the saffron leader said that the State Government was yet to introduce effective measures for redressing the grievances of those displaced villagers who had faced the brunt of natural calamities and added the Government was yet to take effective steps to check corruption and price rise on essential commodities. Terming Rahul Gandhi’s statement holding the RSS responsible for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi as childish, Rawat said that it showed his lack of knowledge of history.
Asking Rahul to restrain himself while making public speeches, Rawat said he should not indulge in mud-slinging against a nationalist organisation without acquainting himself with the facts and figures. The BJP leader also claimed that there was a wave in favour of BJP countrywide and the veterans from different political parties were joining the BJP across the country. lambasting the UPA-II, Rawat also said that 10-year-rule of Congress led to rise in corruption and prices of essential commodities.
He also accused the Congress-led State Government for slower pace of development and added that Chief Minister Harish Rawat took more than one month for the distribution of portfolios to his Cabinet Ministers and alleged that those Cabinet Ministers were in the mood of decisive show. State BJP general secretary Prakash Pant, spokesman Umesh Agarwal and Media co in-charge Abhimanyu Kumar were also present.
Meanwhile, the second phase of “Chai Chaupal”, campaign for BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was held at 12 places in the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand. The “Chai Chaupal” was held Sagar restaurant, New lakshmi tea-stall and KC tea stall in Dehradun, Balaji tea-stall in Haridwar, lakshmi sweets centre, Kaliyar, Prajapati sweets centre at Jawalapur, Rajesh tea-stall at Baharadabad, Mahaveer tea-stall at Jhabrera, Minto tea-stall at Bhagwanpur, Sachin tea-stall at Mangalore, Chauhan dairy at Roorkee and Narendra tea-stall at Khanpur. During the discussion, BJYM state president Saurabh Thapliyal also cornered the Congress-led State Government and UPA-II over rampant corruption in the Government departments.
He also charged that state government was not sensitive towards the grievances of those villagers, who faced the brunt of natural calamities last year. Thapliyal lamented that State and Union Government were yet to take concrete steps to solve the problem of unemployment and migration across the State. Veterans who supervised the campaign expressed that the BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi along with the party’s candidates will surely taste victory in the upcoming general elections.
They said that the country would witness overall development once the NDA forms the stable Government in the near future as the UPA-II had introduced anti-people policies during its regime at the Centre.