Two senior Union Ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet on Tuesday made a whirlwind election campaigning for remaining two phases of election. While Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who reached Jharkhand from Purnea (Bihar) campaigned for NDA candidates in Pathargama (Godda), Jharia (Dhanbad), Adityapur (Jamshedpur) and Adityapur (Singhbhum), Surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari address public meeting in Bokaro (Dhanbad) and Topchanchi (Giridih).
Singh addressing an election rally in Pathargama (Godda) in support of BJP’s Nishikant Dubey, said, “In next five years India would become the third largest economy. Our government has been able to instill belief in the minds of the people by implementing developmental works.”
Highlighting the welfare schemes launched by Modi government he said, “In the last four years the government had provided pucca houses to 1.3 crore people in the country and in next five years every family living below poverty line would be provided houses.”
Singh the former BJP national president in 2014 lead the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to winning 336 seats out of 543. Highlighting the schemes of Modi government he said, only 12 crore gas cyclinders were provided before 2014 but in last four year the BJP government had provided facility to 13 crore people, similarly before 2014 only 5/6 km road were constructed per day but the government which gives emphasis to infrastructure around 30/32 km road are constructed per day.
Singh appealed the voters to vote for BJP candidate Nishikant Dubey who is seeking re-election from the seat claiming that Dubey had raised problems related to his constituency in the Lok Sabha and his initiatives had led to several developmental schemes being taken up in the constituency.
Singh later addressing a gathering at Circus ground at Jharia in Dhanbad said that due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, country’s image in international arena has changed affirmatively after a long span of time. On Left Wing Extremism (LWE) menace, Singh claimed that LWE menace has been almost eliminated in Jharkhand and their remaining pockets in the state will end soon. Rajnath soliciting people support for BJP candidate PN Singh also attacked Congress for having soft approach on terrorism.
Nitin Gadkari, the other senior minister in Modi cabinet, lashed out at Congress over its promise to fight poverty if it regains power. Gadkari alleged that Congress is the main cause of poverty in the country, as the party was never serious about eradicating poverty despite being in power for 60 years. “The Congress kept people poor due to its wrong policies and visionless and corrupt governance,” he said.
Gadkari said, “The previous Congress Government did not introduce any scheme to develop agriculture and villages. former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and former Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi were unable to end poverty than how would Rahul Gandhi be able to do so.”
He asked the voters to choose between a “majboor” or a “majboot” Prime Minister. “This election is choice between a leadership that is helpless before terrorism or a strong (like Prime Minister Narendra Modi),” he said.