Making a scathing attack on the UPA Government at the Centre, Chief Minister Raman Singh on Thursday said that up to 60 years, the Congress had been sloganeering about ‘Garibi Hatao’ (eradicate poverty). Though it could not eradicate poverty, it has increase poverty instead.
Addressing a public meetings organised at Kota and Ratanpur in Bilaspur district during the fifth phase of his Vikas Yatra, the Chief Minister said that the Chhattisgarh Government has worked with wide perspective, in which caste and creed have no place. Hence, schemes have been prepared for the welfare of all categories of people, he added.
The Chief Minister dedicated and performed bhumi poojan of development works worth crores of rupees in Kota development block and distributed materials to the needy people.
The Chief Minister said that small things like cycle and sewing machine could bring great change in the like of a worker hence the government has been distributing such things.
Keeping in mind the welfare of all categories of people, the government has prepared schemes for aged, women and youths. The work, which could not be done during the last 60 years, has been done in the last 5-6 years. It was the beginning of development, he added.
In the meetings, the chief minister told the gathering the he was there to seek their blessings. looking to the enthusiasm of people gathered in the meeting, it seemed, it has been decided that the Bharatiya Janata Party would come into power in the next election, he added.
TheChief Minister said that the farmers were getting agriculture loan at 14 per cent interest, but the BJP government has brought it down to one per cent. He said that the cost of their one vote provided food security to 42 lakh families. He said the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and prime minister Manmohan Singh were trying to pass the Food Security Bill, but that would be accepted, only when that would be like the Food Security Act of Chhattisgarh.
Raman Singh said that inflation was skyrocketing and the people of the country were hard-hitting by price hike. In view of the forthcoming election in November, BJP workers should go at booth level and make people aware of the achievements and public welfare schemes of the BJP government, he added.
Comparing the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act and the Centre’s Food Security Bill, the chief minister said that “We have prepared the Food Nutrition Security Act, in which the BJP government of the state, along with rice, gives wheat, gram and salt also.
The Central Food Advisory Committee in its meeting had stressed on food nutrition security, the central government has taken the food security a medium to garner votes, he added.
In the meeting, minister Hemchand Yadav, Dr Krishna Kumar Bandhi, Assembly Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik, Housing Board chairman Subhash Rao, BJP State general secretary Bhupendra Savanni were present.