Referring to Rahul's speech at FICCI in Delhi, the Gujarat leader had said, “I had heard the speech of a big Congress leader yesterday. He was speaking against corruption. See their daring. No one else can dare do this. These people are so immersed in corruption. Despite this, they make innocent face and speak against corruption.”
Accusing successive Congress governments at the Centre of ignoring the demands of creation of a separate Jharkhand state, he today said the voice of the people was ignored and at times suppressed.
Giving credit to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for carving Jharkhand out of Bihar, he said the state lagged behind in development.
He said while Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand were created at the same time, the latter two were behind in development due to the policies of successive non-BJP governments.
He said if Jharkhand is able to give all its 14 Lok Sabha seats to BJP in the 2014 general elections, then the party will find it easier to form the next government at the Centre.
“It will ensure the development of the state,” he said, adding that the present government at the Centre was not inclined towards development of the state. He said while Jharkhand produces coal, it lacks power plants.
“The coal is exported from the state for the power plants....Power plants should have been established in Jharkhand and electricity should have been supplied to other states.”
“Any expert will say that a state with these kind of resources can match any developed country....Such a state rich (in terms of resources) is still poor,” he said. Earlier, addressing the rally, BJP President Rajnath Singh hit out at the Centre for instituting a Commission of Inquiry into snoopgate.
