Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress President Nand Kumar Patel Sunday charged that benefits of the Central Government sponsored welfare schemes were not reaching to poor people living in far flung areas of the state due to misrule of the Bharatiya Janata Party government which has made the state a place of loot of natural resources.
Patel, while addressing the large gathering of people at Sonhat and Baikunthpur in Surguja division en route the party’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ charged that BJP government betrayed the people as after coming to power it forgot to pay Rs270 bonus it promised in 2008 Assembly polls and promised to purchase the farmers’ paddy at the rate of Rs 2000 per quintal if Congress came to power.
Speaking to people at the meeting at Sonhat Union Minister Charandas Mahant said that Congress neither propped up communal forces nor it indulged in caste politics ever. On the other hand, just after coming to power BJP indulged in loot of public money as also corruption in government offices reached crescendo.
The BJP Government has discriminated against all including women, farmers, soil as well as culture of Chhattisgarh. Natural resources of this state are callously sold to some industrialists, he charged and added that to change this situation was the motive of the Parivartan Yatra.
State in-charge of the Yatra T S Singhdeo also rapped State Government for allowing industrialists to plunder the natural resources in the name of industrialisation and called upon people to route out the present Government.
MlA Dr Premsai Singh, Chandrabhan Barmate, Shiv Singh Thakur, Syamlal Jayaswal, Krishna rajwade, Gulab Choudhary, Reyaj Khan and others were also present.