The minister principal of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, who heads a JMM-Congresso-RJD alliance government in the state, said that the opposition BJP had been trying to unseat his government since its formation on 29 December 2019.
Addressing the 24th day of the formation of the state at Morabadi Ground in Ranchi on Wednesday, Soren said: “In the last two hours of the formation of our government, the leaders of the opposition have been busy conspiring to topple our government. “In December our government will complete four years.”
Soren has faced citations from the Directorate of Execution on allegations of money laundering and profiteering allegedly orchestrated by the central government led by the BJP.
Soren reflected on the previous BJP governments in the state and said: “During the previous governments, we used to see people dying of hunger due to having rationing carts. By eliminating hundreds of miles of fuel cartridges. However, we intend to provide benefits of rationing cards to approximately 20 lakh additional beneficiaries”.
He also accused the Center of giving a “madrastra” treatment to the states not governed by the BJP.
“Unfortunately, the Center is giving a madrasa treatment to those states that do not have government bimotors (a term used by the BJP).
Leaders by having governments both at the center as in the states). Our demands to provide houses to the homeless people in rural areas under the housing scheme of the Prime Minister were rejected and we had to provide houses under the Abu Awas Yojana of the state government”, said Soren.
During a review of the states affected by left-wing extremism earlier this year, Soren had informed the Union’s Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah, that the Union’s Ministry of Rural Development was not taking any positive decisions on the concession. The benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) to the eligible beneficiaries. .the status due to repeated requests.
Soren met in February this year with the Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh, in New Delhi and asked to sanction 8.37 lakh houses in the state under PMAY-Rural for families registered in the portal Awas Plus.
The Prime Minister said he had informed Singh that all the beneficiaries registered were poor and in need of housing.
On Wednesday, Soren and the Governor of Jharkhand, C.P. Radhakrishnan launched the third phase of “Sarkar Aapki Yojana, Aapki Sarkar, Aapke Dwar”.
On the occasion, they inaugurated around 229 projects worth 1.714.44 million rupees and laid the first stones of 677 projects worth 5.328.30 million rupees.
The government launched the investment policy of Jharkhand 2023, the policy of promotion of MIPYMES of Jharkhand 2023, the policy of export of Jharkhand 2023 and the policy of promotion of investments in TI, data centers and BPO of Jharkhand 2023, Abu Awas Yojana (housing scheme for homeless persons in rural areas) and Mukhyamantri Gram Gaadi Yojana (rural housing scheme for homeless persons) scheme of buses.
It distributed financial assistance worth 261 million rupees among 555,652 adolescents for 2023-24 under the framework of Savitri Bai Phule Kishori Samriddhi Yojana.
