Dubbing BJP’s ‘Pardafaash’ rally as a damp squib, Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s media advisor Surendra Kumar said that the people would reject the saffron party with a vengeance in the upcoming Assembly election.
“Doubtless, the people have seen through BJP as a party that is hostile to the State’s development and adept in murdering democracy through engineering horse trading. There is thus no element of surprise in the rally turning into a fiasco,” he said.
Taking potshots at the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre, he said that under the NDA rule the inflation is rising fast with the prices of the essential commodities sky-rocketing. “Besides, the party is synonymous with corruption. Can anybody forget the Vyapam scam that resulted in several mysterious deathsIJ”he asked.
He further said that the people of the State are solidly standing behind the Harish Rawat Government whose focus is trained on bringing about development of all the sections of the people. “People have realised that the Harish Rawat Government alone can address the grievances of the people. They would reject BJP’s politics of defamation and gimmick,” Kumar said.
Taking a jibe at the ten dissidents who have crossed over to BJP from Congress, the CM’s close aide said that they had been earlier targeted by the BJP for corruption when they were in the Congress. “Now the same leaders have turned cynosures of their eyes,” he said.
He asked BJP leaders to answer questions earlier raised by them over the integrity of the dissidents. “The saffron party has lost credibility. And the election would prove so,” Kumar said.