Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh will be launching his much hyped Vikas Yatra on Saturday to tell people in the election year that the saffron regime has ushered in development in the mineral-rich but impoverished State.
The Ayurvedic-doctor-turned politician, Singh, who is heading the BJP Government since December 2003, is hoping to pull off a victory for the fourth successive term on his Government’s development plank.
The State goes to polls for the 90-member State Assembly later this year. Singh will be formally launching the Vikas Yatra from his favourite religious place, Dantewada, which is home to Maa Danteshwari temple.
State’s main opposition Congress has mocked Raman’s planned Vikas Yatra and said it would be too launching Rs Vikas Khojo’ yatra from May 13 to tell people that development has been stalled in the State during the BJP regime.
While spelling out his month-long first phase Vikas Yatra which would culminate on June 11 at Balod, Singh told mediapersons at Naya Raipur that he would address at least 90 public meetings besides 15 road shows in 62 Assembly segments to brief people that State has witnessed huge development in all sectors during his tenure.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be reaching Naxal-heartland Dantewada to flag off Raman’s Yatra which he would cover mostly by a luxury vehicle which designed in form of a chariot fitted with all latest tech facilities inside which would lift him up at rooftop to allow him address the gathering. He would also use chopper occasionally to reach the maximum areas.
Singh informed that development works worth Rs 29,000 crore would be dedicated to the public during the Yatra, apart from distribution of Rs 50 lakh smart phones, distribution of bonus, laptops, bicycles and sewing machines to thousands of beneficiaries.
He reiterated that situation in the State was worse during Congress rule but he has transformed people’s life style, and even in highly under-developed vast Bastar in State’s southern tip and in sprawling northern Surguja belt people have access to electricity round the clock besides quality roads, schools and hospitals.