Team News Riveting
Jabalpur, June 12
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra vowed that her party would provide Rs 1,500 per month to women, LPG cylinders for Rs 500, 100 units of electricity free, implementation of the old pension scheme and waive off farm loans in Madhya Pradesh if voted to power.
Priyanka on Monday formally kicked off Congress campaign for the November Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh with a rally in Jabalpur. Besides announcing a slew of packages, she launched a scathing attack on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government and charged it was mired in corruption.
The BJP government failed to provide jobs, she said, adding corruption in Vyapam, ration distribution, mining, e-tender and the fight against coronavirus had come to the fore. She said 225 “scams” had taken place in the 220 months of Bharatiya Janata Party rule in the state.
The BJP government in the state indulges in a “new scam every month”, the Congress General Secretary said. Gandhi said, if voted to power in MP, the Congress will provide Rs 1,500 per month to women, LPG cylinders for Rs 500, 100 units of electricity free, implement the old pension scheme, and waive off farm loans.
“The Congress government in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh has restored the OPS. Our government in Karnataka has cleared the five guarantees (the poll promises made by the party there),” she said.
“In the last three years, only 21 government jobs were provided in the state by the BJP government. When this figure was brought to my notice, I got it checked three times from my office and found it is a fact,” she said.
Mocking the BJP’s “double-engine government” poll talk, Gandhi said, “We have seen a lot of double and triple-engine governments, but people of Himachal and Karnataka have given a befitting reply in the polls.” “Double engine government” is a term used by the BJP to claim having a ruling dispensation of the party in the state and Centre was beneficial to people in terms of development.
Without taking name, she took a jibe at Congressman-turned BJP leader and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and said some leaders in Madhya Pradesh had abandoned the party’s ideology for the sake of power.
