BJP leader and former Deputy CM Raghuwar Das on Friday dared the Congress to hold Jharkhand polls along with lok Sabha election due in May this year. Addressing the media, he said the Government must hold Assembly polls along with the lok Sabha polls. This will also save the country’s expenditure on polling.
“If the Congress is confident of winning the parliamentary polls, it should conduct simultaneous polls of Jharkhand Assembly. Our nation is gripped with the wave of Narendra Modi and if the grand-old-party has the courage, it must also hold Jharkhand Assembly elections,” Das said. He went on to add that the performance of his party in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chattisgarh was a clear indication that the people had favoured Narendra Modi’s repeated appeal to created Congress-free Gvernment in the country.
Das also took a dig over the incident involving Congress MP l Rajagopal who used pepper spray in the lower House on Thursday, leading to chaos after which some MPs came to blows. He called the incident a shame for Indian democracy.
Speaking on the issues concerning the nation he said price rise had affected not only the economically weaker section, but also middle-class people. This was the prime reason why people wanted to oust the Congress. He blamed the Union Government for it and vowed to intensify their agitation till steps were taken to control the increasing prices of essential commodities.
He said the Congress was also trying to repeat the same episode and bow down the State in corruption again. BJP, however, would not allow this to happen and would continue to demand immediate dissolution of the assembly to pave way of fresh elections.
He also expressed concern over rising cases of accidents in the city. Sharing information he said that 189 people were killed and 335 wounded in 2012 and in 2013, 184 people were killed and 389 injured. Das said Tata Steel must take immediate step to set up Easter Corridor.