Teonthar (MP), Nov 4: In a fusillade against the Congress, BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda on Friday alleged that its chief ministers function as collectors not in the administrative sense but as persons who “collect wealth” and offer it to the “Delhi durbar”.
Nadda named Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel and Madhya Pradesh’s erstwhile CM Kamal Nath in this regard.
Addressing a rally in this town of election-bound Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, the visiting leader said, “We do not subscribe to the culture of that party, which makes false promises, misleads the populace, commits crime and grabs votes by deluding you. For years, the Congress kept sitting on the Women’s Reservation Bill. What did you receive in Congress tenure? The coal, AgustaWestland, Commonwealth, 2G and Adarsh scams.”
Comparing and contrasting the Narendra Modi dispensation with predecessor governments, Nadda rhetorically asked, “What used to happen earlier? The regimes that assumed the reins would not be governments of the people but of some caste, category, or clan. Those dispensations thought only of themselves and not of society.”
In this state’s context, the BJP bigwig said “it is saddening” that central funds for two lakh dwellings proposed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana were returned by the then Chief Minister Nath as were Rs 248 crore under the Jal Jeevan Mission.
“His regime was characterised by inconsistencies. Unaccounted cash was unearthed at his relatives’ abodes,” Nadda added.
