Team News Riveting
Raipur, October 6
Chhattisgarh’s only regional party, Janta Congress Chhattisgarh has taken a strong exception over the announcement of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to provide monetary assistance to the victims of violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur-Kheri.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has announced a financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh each to families of four farmers and a journalist killed in the violence that broke out in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. The Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi also made the similar announcement. The Chief Ministers of the two Congress-ruled states, along with party leader Rahul Gandhi, have arrived in Lucknow, from where they intend to go to Lakhimpur Kheri to meet the families of the victims.
Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J) State President Amit Jogi castigated the announcement and termed it an insult discrimination of farmers living in the “rice-bowl”. “What was the reason the Bhupesh government did not give a penny to the farmers killed in firing in Silger of forested Bastar region?” Jogi quizzed. Three farmers were killed in the police firing in Silger village of Sukma district in May this year.
Discriminating with the farmers of Chhattisgarh, the Chief Minister announced assistance for the Lakhimpur farmers despite the Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh has announced to give Rs 45 lakh each to the kin of the deceased, he said. “Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel ji has doled out the assistance by opening the state treasury just to impress and please the Congress party high command,” Jogi added.
He lashed out at the Congress and said the state leaders were using farmers in Chhattisgarh for achieving their own ends.
