Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday heaped praise on sitting MP and BJP’s lok Sabha candidate for Raipur seat, Ramesh Bais, saying that it was his untiring efforts during the tenure of Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister that led to the formation of Chhattisgarh State.
“Ramesh Bais is a simple farmer’s son, who has no interest in telling about his many achievements as an MP,” he said, addressing a public meeting near the statue of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, at GE Road in the city.
Singh addressed the public meeting after Bais filed his nomination for the Raipur lok Sabha seat at the District Collectorate and arrived with a massive rally of BJP workers in the city.The Chief Minister stated that he himself had been a witness to the efforts made by Bais to realise the dream of seeing Chhattisgarh as a State for its people.
“It was due to the love and dedication of Ramesh Bais for the people of Chhattisgarh that the dreams of AIIMS, NIT and Raipur Railway Station being declared as a ‘Model Station’ were realised during his tenure besides many other works,” he said.
Ramesh Bais in his address stated that in his long political career he has not done anything adverse for the people of Chhattisgarh and the party workers.“I have to complete many more developmental works for which I need the support of the people,” he said.Agriculture Minister and BJP’s in-charge of Raipur lok Sabha region, Brijmohan Agrawal said that the entire Chhattisgarh knows about the contribution of the State’s ‘son of the soil’ Ramesh Bais in development of the State.