Chhattisgarh Assembly elections: Union Home Minister Amit Shah released an 'Aarop Patra' against Chattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, where assembly elections are due by the year-end. Shah who arrived in Chhattisgarh on Friday evening, will also hold a meeting with the BJP core group and review the election preparations.
Amit Shah to release 'Aarop Patra'
Shah released an 'Aarop Patra' (charge sheet) against the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government at Pt Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium in Raipur and claimed that in the last five years, CM Bhupesh Baghel did the work of becoming the ATM of the Gandhi family and looting the money of the poor people.
The Home Minister said that the BJP made efforts to improve Chhattisgarh from 2014 onwards but the state government, which came to power in 2018, has been indulging in loot, corruption and scams. "When Raman Singh was the chief minister, he started the thumb impression system to provide ration to every home. He was known as 'chawal wale baba' in Chhattisgarh. BJP has done the work of providing ration to the poor...Bhupesh Baghel govt has done the work of snatching ration from the poor," he said.
"The people of Chhattisgarh have to decide whom will they support -that Bhupesh Baghel govt which promised the safety of tribals during whose tenure there was a wave of religious conversion or the BJP government which safeguards the culture of tribals?"
BJP will win 11 out of 11 seats in 2024
Shah further exuded confidence that the BJP will win 11 out of 11 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. "The people of Chhattisgarh have always given their blessings to the BJP by electing it to power thrice (in Chhattisgarh). I am confident that BJP will win 11 out of 11 seats in 2024," he added.
He will later leave for Khairmal village in the Saraipali area to attend an 'abhinandan' programme organised by tribal groups. He will also address the function.
Notably, Amit Shah and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address separate public gatherings in the poll-bound state on Saturday.
BJP suffered massive defeat in 2018 Chhattisgarh elections
After being in power for 15 years since 2003 under the leadership of Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh, the BJP suffered a massive defeat in the 2018 assembly elections at the hands of Congress and now it is looking to wrest the state. In the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress won 68 of 90 seats in the state, while the BJP finished a distant second at 15. The JCC (J) bagged won in five constituencies and its ally BSP got 2 seats. The Congress currently has 71 members in the House.
(With agencies input)
