BJP national president Amit Shah said on Friday that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh is the biggest face of the party in Chhattisgarh and reiterated that the BJP would form Government in the mineral-rich State for the record fourth consecutive term.
“The biggest face of the BJP in Chhattisgarh is Raman Singh and if the BJP forms Government at the Centre, Narendra Modi will once again be the Prime Minister,’’ Shah announced while addressing a massive public meeting during the conclusion of the “Atal Vikas Yatra” at Narharpur in Kanker district.
Shah also challenged the Congress for an “open debate” on the development works done by the party during its rule, as compared to the work done by Chief Minister Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre.
He also asserted that the BJP had always practised the Rs politics of development’.
“We are ready for an open debate with the Congress on the development works done by its governments in 55 years as against the 15 years of Raman Singh’s Government in Chhattisgarh and five years of the Narendra Modi government,” Shah said.
“I have come to seek your support to make Raman Singh Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh for the fourth consecutive time”, he announced, adding, “in Chhattisgarh, we will contest polls led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Raman Singh,’’.
“I want to ask AICC President Rahul Gandhi, who will lead Congress in polls in Chhattisgarh? Would he be one who distributes CDs or makes fake CDs, asked Shah?
“With what face the Congress party will face people in Chhattisgarh. What type of a leader is this who will go to people not with a development plank but CD," he asked amid loud cheer by thousands of local people mainly the tribal who travelled several kilometres barefoot to attend the public meeting. The BJP chief further stated, “there are two options with the people in Chhattisgarh- one for a party (Congress) which only used poverty eradication slogans for decades and removed the poor or the party (BJP) which provided housing, ration, tendu patta bonus.”