Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh on Thursday said that people have unfounded faith on his government and the public welfare schemes and achievements would be ‘Brahmastra’ (weapon) of the BJP in the forthcoming assembly election. The BJP will get mandate for coming into power in the State for the third consecutive term, he added.
The Chief Minister expressed these views in an informal chat with the mediapersons at Raipur, before leaving for Rajnandgaon for filing nominations. To a question, the Chief Minister said that his Government by bringing the first Food Security Act in the country has given the right for cheap foodgrain to the 42 lakh poor and about 10 lakh general families of Chhattisgarh. “Our public distribution system has been considered as a model by the Supreme Court and several Ministers of the Centre and States,” he added.
The BJP Government, during the last 10 years has done thousands of regional development works with the participation of peoples’ representatives by establishing three special authorities in the tribal and scheduled caste dominated areas of the State. In order to give Government services to the youths of the State, lakhs of appointments have been made including 1.10 lakh teachers of Panchayat cadre, and 30 thousand police personnel, he said.
To a question, the Chief Minister, dismissing the allegations of corruption against his Government, said that the Opposition Congress could not prove any such allegations, even in the Assembly. People in the State are not unhappy with the schemes and policies of the BJP Government, he added.
Terming the allegation of corruption as the election ill-propaganda of the Opposition Congress, the Chief Minister said that these charges were politically motivated and there were no truth in it. The Congress should make it house in order first. At central level, on the Congress-led UPA Government serious allegations involving lakhs of crores of rupees, including the Commonwealth sports scam, and 2G-spectrom were there and even the central ministers had to serve jail term on these charges, he added.
To a question, Dr Raman Singh, terming the naxalite issue a national problem, said that with the cooperation of people and the efforts of the State Government this problems has been solved in Surguja area and now, with 3-4 years it would be solved in Bastar region. Terming the Jheeram Ghati naxalite attack on the Congress rally a sad and serious incident, the Chief Minister said that the many Congress senior leaders who were martyred in this incident were my personal friends also.
Saying the discontentment of the party workers over the distribution of ticket for the assembly election as natural reaction, the Chief Minister said that “the lakhs of BJP workers are the members of our family. In the election front we all are working unitedly. For the 90 assembly seats of the state, definitely there are 5-10 deserved candidates. With the strength and hardwork of all the party workers, the BJP will form the government,” he added.
The chief minister said that on the 7th and 13th of next month, the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address the election meetings in Chhattisgarh. With the coming of Modi, definitely positive and encouraging atmosphere in favour of BJP would be
created, he added.