Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today said that the Congress will form government in Centre after the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 and after the three phase of polling it has been clear that the people of the country are going to reject Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Addressing press meet on Saturday in the State Capital Ramesh, said that the Modi government’s countdown has begun as till now polling is over on 302 seats and till the day after tomorrow polling on 400 seats will be completed and one can easily notice it by body language of Modi that they are going to lose the election.
“Since formation of the government in the Centre, the BJP government has weakened the Forest Rights Act, 2006. A total of 18 lakhs of forest land lease have been given to all states in last 12 years. But Jharkhand distributed a total of 58,000 of forest land lease where Odisha distributed five lakhs and Chhattisgarh has distributed four lakhs of forest land lease. Around 30 per cent of total area of Jharkhand comes under forest area. There are around 15 lakhs of such kinds of family could not get lease of forest land,” said Ramesh.
Speaking on the inappropriate use of land acquisition law Ramesh said that the UPA government had brought historical Land Acquisition Act, 2013. “All the political parties had supported the Act at that time and leader of BJP, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj had also supported the Act. But in last five years the Centre and the State government has only weakened the Act. The governments have not given proper compensation of a large number of cases of land acquisition in last five years. The State government had tried to weaken years old CNT SPT Act to provide benefit to capitalists,” he added.
Criticising the Central government on job policy, Ramesh said that according to the data collected by various reputed agencies around one crore people become jobless in 2018 due to wrong policies of the government including demonetization and implementation of goods and services act in haste. Modi is first of its kind of Prime Minister who is not job creator but job destroyer, he added.
Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Bhupesh Baghel also visited the State to canvass vote for the party candidate from Ranchi parliamentary constituency, Subodhkant Sahay on Saturday. Baghel Said that the people of the Country and the State has decided that they to get rid of BJP governments in the Centre and the State. “After formation of the State most of the time BJP ruled the State but there is still starvation death,” he added.
Baghel addressed three public in support of Sahay including Silly, Nimdih and Ormanjhi.