Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday (August 2) slammed the BJP for “destroying” the Indian economy through “wrong policies” and said that the saffron party was hell-bent on making the country's condition “worse than neighbouring Pakistan”. Addressing the Assembly on the concluding day of the monsoon session, he accused the BJP of playing "vote-bank politics” by dividing people in the name of religion.
"The country is passing through a difficult phase; the economy is in peril, due to the wrong policies of the BJP-led central government. They are hell-bent on making the country's condition worse than Pakistan," Soren said.
He also said the people of Ayodhya gave a befitting reply to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls for “dividing the country” on religious lines. On the Centre’s 'Agnipath' scheme, Soren said youths enrolled in it will become “jobless after four years”, but the Jharkhand government will provide grants to their kin in case of their death, and compensatory jobs to the family members.
Amid protest by BJP members who trooped into the well of the House against his comments, Soren alleged the country's assets were being rampantly sold while farmers' lives were at stake.
Continuing his attack on the saffron camp, the chief minister said “it is a matter of investigation” as to how much land was “looted by the BJP” in the last five years in the state.
"They indulged in land loot and sent me behind bars by hatching a conspiracy, misusing central agencies like ED and CBI. I want to ask from where they got funds to build BJP offices...You will be astonished to know that they constructed such a building on government land as well," Soren alleged.
He also accused the party of running a false propaganda at various places by "importing leaders".
Coming down heavily on his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was in Jharkhand earlier in the day, Soren said at a time people in his state were affected by floods, he was “fueling communal tension” in the state.
"You (BJP) will be wiped out not only from Jharkhand, but Assam, too," he asserted.
Soren claimed that his government provided jobs to nearly 1.5 lakh people in private and government sectors, adding, he could have provided employment to five lakh people “had he not been put behind bars”.
(With PTI inputs)
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