The Congress party on Monday termed the 5,000 days of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government in Chhattisgarh as a ‘failure’.
The State which was called ‘rice bowl’ is now empty. Youth are facing unemployment problem and the peaceful State is now facing law and order problem, Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CGPCC) President Bhupesh Bahgel said in press conference held here.
The number of murders and rapes have increased. A 19,000 girls of the State are missing and farmers specially the tribals are committing suicide, he said.
The poverty in these 5,000 days had increased 7% and is now highest in the country amounting 39.9%, Baghel said.
leader of Opposition in State Assembly, TS Singhdeo said that now the countdown of the BJP government in the State has begun and only 475 days are left.
He criticised the Government for shifting the Independence Day programmes a day earlier.
Former CGPCC president Dhanendra Sahu charged that whatever development works are going on were initiated by the earlier UPA Government at the Centre.
He also criticised the BJP for breaking the tradition of 70 years of celebrating Independence Day on August 15.