Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Wednesday expressed confidence that the BJP will win all 14 Lok Sabha seats in the State claiming that the people will reject the grand alliance. Talking to media persons at State BJP headquarter, Das said, “The BJP victory in 2019 will be bigger than 2014. The BJP alliance is based on confidence, while the Mahagathbandhan alliance is based on distrust and self interest of its allies partner.”
Congratulating the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the success of ‘Mission Shakti’ with India becoming the fourth country in the world to join the exclusive club of space super powers after US, Russia and China, Chief Minister said, “Today is great day for country, the success of India in space world has established the fact that country is in the safe hand.
The world has seen how India responded to Pakistan terror attack by carrying out surgical strikes twice on Pakistan terrorists’ camps. The country needs Prime Minister like Narendra Modi.”
The Chief Minister also mocked Congress president Rahul Gandhi minimum income guarantee scheme assuring Rs 72,000 a year for India's poorest families if the Congress is voted back to power. Das said, “This is not for the first time Congress leadership had given the call to remove poverty. Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during eighties had given to remove poverty from country, but all the schemes launched by Indira Gandhi for poverty elevation have turned out to be mere eye wash.” Das said, “The Congress every time during election gives the slogan of Congress Ka Haath Garibo Ke Saath, but after election the slogan changes to Congress Ka Haath Amrio Ke Saath.”
The Chief Minister on the occasion counted various schemes launched by Modi Government for poor such as Ayushman Yojana, which is world’s largest government funded healthcare scheme, Direct Benefit Transfer or DBT, which as change in mechanism of transferring Government subsidies, Ujjwala scheme providing gas connections to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families, housing and toilets schemes apart from various social security schemes launched by Modi government.
The Chief Minister was in BJP headquarter for participating at the workshop of party social media workshop in parliamentary elections. BJP IT cell in-charge, Bhanu Jalan said, “At the social media workshop more than 400 volunteers from booth level to district level workers participated at the workshop. Instructions were issued to BJP cadres to be aggressive in attacking false propaganda launched by Rahul Gandhi in centre and Hemant Soren in State.
Jalan said, “We have asked our social media workers to counter Rahul Gandhi false propaganda on Rafale deal at the same time counter Hemant Soren false propaganda on tribal issue.” Instructions were also issued BJP cadres to highlights the various development schemes launched by Modi Government.