CHHINDWARA: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday slammed the Congress for its remedy of tribals and the downtrodden and stated solely the Bharatiya Janata Party can present safety and prosperity to the nation and in addition guarantee welfare of the poor. Speaking at a gathering in Chhindwara, the bastion of Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath for nearly 50 years now, Shah requested folks to vote overwhelmingly for the BJP within the Assembly polls to be held within the state later this yr and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Training his weapons on Nath, the Union minister stated the previous did nothing for the folks of the state when he was chief minister between December 2018 and March 2020 however “indulged in corruption”.
“Previous Congress governments did not care for the tribals, the poor and those from the Other Backward Classes. Only the BJP can provide security, prosperity and ensure welfare of the poor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi cares for the respect of tribals, whom the Congress has neglected for years,” Shah stated.
“A woman from a poor tribal family, Droupadi Murmu, is now the honourable President of India after 75 years (of Independence) due to the efforts of PM Modi,” he stated.
The PM had additionally introduced nationwide celebration of legendary tribal chief Birsa Munda’s delivery anniversary on November 15 final yr as ‘Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas’, the Union Home Minister stated.
“The Congress has always talked about the downtrodden but did nothing for them. PM Modi gave constitutional status to the OBC Commission after coming to power in 2014 and laid the foundation for their respect. Only the BJP has cared for the respect of tribals and OBCs,” Shah asserted.
After the formation of the NDA authorities in 2014, PM Modi stated the BJP’s regime was that of the poor, the downtrodden, Dalits, tribals and OBCs, whereas the Congress, which gave the slogan of “garibi hatao’, (eradicate poverty) did nothing for them, Shah claimed.
“In the last nine years (of NDA rule), the Union government has worked to transform the lives of 80 crore poor people. Bank accounts had been opened for 60 crore citizens, 13 crore persons got gas cylinders and 10 crore families saw toilets getting built in their homes. Three crore people got their own houses. More than 60 crore people are reaping the benefits of Ayushman Bharat health scheme, which has a coverage of Rs 5 lakh,” Shah stated.
“PM Modi got 130 crore people vaccinated for free to protect them from coronavirus. Modiji has ensured the poor get five kilograms of rations free every month at their doorsteps,” he added.
Attacking Nath, the Union Home minister stated, “Instead of doing something new (during his tenure as CM), Kamal Nath indulged in corruption.”
Shah alleged a number of crore rupees have been paid upfront with out following laid down procedures in a dam development work wherein names of individuals near the Congress chief cropped up.
“He had promised to give allowance to unemployed (youth) during the last Assembly polls but no one got it. Instead, he abandoned the welfare schemes launched by Shivraj Singh Chouhan,” stated Shah, who listed many “unfulfilled promises” of Nath.
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Shah stated the BJP authorities had made a budgetary allocation of Rs 34,000 crore for Chhindwara and spoke of multi-crore central initiatives sanctioned for the area. Some 35-40 per cent of individuals from the Chhindwara area are from the tribal communities.
The Narendra Modi authorities eliminated provisions of Article 370 that gave particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, whereas the Congress dragged its ft on the problem for years, he stated.
MP Congress president and former chief minister Kamal Nath was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Chhindwara in 1980 and repeated the feat a number of occasions, along with his solely loss coming in a bypoll in 1997.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP managed to win 28 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats in MP, together with that of then Congress heavyweight Jyotiraditya Scindia, however Chhindwara remained out of grasp with Nath’s son Nakul Nath successful it by a margin of greater than 35,000 votes.
The Congress had shaped authorities below Kamal Nath after the 2018 Assembly polls earlier than a revolt by MLAs loyal to Scindia introduced it down in March 2020 and paved the best way for the return of a BJP dispensation below Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Shah’s meet was a part of the BJP’s mass outreach programme set to cowl 130-odd Lok Sabha seats it didn’t win within the 2019 polls, get together functionaries stated.
