Madhya Pradesh, which has 230 seats, will go to polls later this year.
Bhopal:
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday slammed the Congress, saying the party had made Madhya Pradesh a ‘Bimaru Rajya’ and his government had removed that stigma.
CM Chouhan made this comment while addressing a ‘Karyakarta Mahakumbh’, a mega congregation of BJP workers, at Jamboree Maidan in the capital Bhopal on Monday.
“We have done a lot of work in Madhya Pradesh. Remember that dark phase of Congress when Congress made Madhya Pradesh a ‘Bimaru Rajya’ (sick state). We have taken that stigma away from Bimaru. During the Congress rule, there were only 60,000 people. Kilometers of broken and damaged roads in the state, today we have constructed five lakh kilometers of beautiful roads in the state,” CM Chouhan said.
The acronym ‘BIMARU’ has been used to refer to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, to imply that they have lagged behind in economic growth, healthcare and education.
“During Congress rule, electricity was available for two to three hours and only 2,900 megawatts of power was generated. Today, the BJP government has increased power generation in the state to 29,000 megawatts. The irrigation facility was available only on 7,500 hectares of land, but today the facility has been set up for 47 lakh hectares of land,” he said.
Mr. Chouhan further said that the twin-engine government of the BJP has taken Madhya Pradesh forward quickly.
“During the Congress, the poor people were forced to suffer the curse of poverty, but I can proudly say that we have raised 1.36 crore people above the poverty line. This miracle has happened under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi,” said MP CM. .
Talking about the 15-month rule of the Kamal Nath-led Congress government, the chief minister said, “Kamal Nath has committed a sin. Prime Minister Modi sent houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. But Nath committed the sin of returning 2,00,000 houses. Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, the Prime Minister sent money, but Kamal Nath did not start the Jal Jeevan Mission. When we returned to power, we worked to provide water to 67 lakh houses under the piped water scheme.”
“Congress did not send the list of beneficiaries of Prime Minister’s Samman Nidhi and farmers did not get money. When the BJP government returned, they sent a list of 80 lakh people to avail the benefits of Kisan Samman Nidhi. Congress took measures to destroy and ruin the state, but today they are satisfied to say that Madhya Pradesh is now moving fast,” he added.
Madhya Pradesh, which has 230 seats, will go to polls later this year. In the last Assembly elections in 2018, Congress came to power and formed the government with senior leader Kamal Nath as the chief minister.
However, the BJP formed the government in 2020 after a coup by then Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP along with 22 MLAs.
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