BJP State Vice President Sharma questioned Congress leaders including former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Leader of Opposition Charandas Mahant and State Congress President Deepak Baij that why should the people of Raipur South vote for Congress? What work has Congress done for which the people of Raipur should support Congress? Discussing the Congress’ Jan Manifesto of 2018, Mr. Sharma said that Congress leaders had taken an oath of complete prohibition of liquor in the state by holding Ganga water in their hands, but committed liquor scam. The case of Mahadev gambling and coal brokerage is in front of the state. Many cases of threatening and intimidating farmers have come to light. A video of Bilaspur Youth Congress President Sher Aslam threatening a farmer went viral. Mr. Sharma said that even in the last 10 months of BJP rule, a well-planned conspiracy is being hatched by Congress leaders to spoil the law and order problem and situation in the state. The biggest example of this is the Balodabazar incident. Its mastermind was Congress MLA Devendra Yadav. He has been in jail for the last three months and is not being able to get bail. Similarly, all the people arrested during the Congress regime, be it Sameer Bishnoi or Saumya Chaurasia or Ranu Sahu, have not been able to get bail for one and a half to two years.
BJP State Vice President Sharma said that what has Raipur Mayor Ejaz Dhebar done in 5 years? The corruption of hundreds of crores of rupees in the name of Smart City will also be thoroughly investigated and the BJP government will make arrangements to send the guilty to jail. Sharma said that whether it is the state leadership of Congress or the national leadership, it works to hurt the sentiments of the majority of Sanatan Dharma followers. There is no need to tell what happened to Brijmohan Agarwal in Baijnath Para in the last election. The terror of a particular class during the tenure of Bhupesh Baghel and the protection given to those elements by the Bhupesh government is not hidden from anyone. BJP truly believes in the policy of Sarvadharma Samabhaav. Mr. Sharma said that last time in its manifesto, Congress had specifically promised the citizens of the city that those who do not have land will be given land lease and a two-room house will be built for them, but that promise was not fulfilled whereas in the BJP’s central government scheme, 2665 Pradhan Mantri Awas were approved and built in Raipur South. 70 lakh women are getting money under the Mahtari Vandan Yojana. BJP has fulfilled the five promises of its manifesto, which cost about 25 thousand crore rupees, within 5 months. Whether it is about giving the bonus due for 2 years or increasing the amount of tendu leaf collection or approving Pradhan Mantri Awas, we have fulfilled all these promises within 4 months and the CBI is investigating the PSC scam that the Congress government was playing with the future of the youth of Chhattisgarh.
Addressing the press conference, State Minister and in-charge of South by-election Shyam Bihari Jaiswal said that even 1 year of BJP government has not been completed and we have shown the work done in such a short time. The work of taking the government’s achievements to the people was done by our Chief Minister Say, Deputy Chief Ministers Arun Saw and Vijay Sharma, seven ministers and 18 MLAs, who went among the people to tell about the government’s achievements as well as to campaign in favour of our candidate. Our state officials and workers of Raipur division and especially Raipur South participated in this election campaign with full force. Jaiswal said that we are going to win this election on the basis of our government’s ambitious schemes and development. There is an atmosphere of complete prosperity in the state today. We are going to complete Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to provide tap water to every house. Thousands of devotees are going to visit Ramlala every month. Similarly, the state government has achieved success on the Naxalism front as well and in the last 10 months, our government killed 200 Naxalites, 800 Naxalites surrendered and 738 Naxalites have been arrested and put in jail. In this way, Naxalism is dying.
