Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday denounced the "Gujarat model" of development as he urged the people of Uttar Pradesh to vote out the BJP government in assembly elections in the state.
Addressing an election rally in Robertsganj in Uttar Pradesh, he also said that people have to find a solution to their problems as the state government has failed to do so.
“When governments do not solve the problem, then people have to come forward to find a solution to their problems,” Baghel said.
The Chief Minister, in Varanasi, took a jibe at the ‘Gujarat model’ of the BJP, saying the model is all about four people who have come from Gujarat -- two buyers and two sellers.
He added that the BJP government is selling one after another all the assets generated by previous governments.
Describing the ‘Congress model’, he said it is aimed at making the common people more powerful, giving employment to the unemployed and extension of every scheme to the doorstep of the poor.
Baghel said that if in Chhattisgarh 2,500 quintals of paddy can be bought, cow dung bought for Rs 2 per kg, farmers’ loans can be waived off and 5 lakh people can be given government jobs, why can’t it happen in Uttar Pradesh?