The Congress president alleged that despite the BJP government in Chhattisgarh receiving huge central aid for various schemes, nothing had changed on the ground.
“We never discriminated between the state governments of Congress and those of other parties. We always extended our full cooperation to Chhattisgarh. We gave a huge amount of funds for employment, health, power, roads and many other development works....Centre also supported the state in maintaining law and order....But now you will decide whether the ruling BJP government has done anything for the people ....I am sure the answer will be no,” she said.
Though the state had received a large amount of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, local people were still migrating to other states in search of work, she alleged.
“Chhattisgarh government has failed to secure the rights of the tribals. It has openly looted iron and coal of the state to give them away to few persons. Even rivers were given to mafias. I feel really sad for this,” she said.
No government had undertaken as much developmental activities as the Manmohan Singh government had, she claimed and added that several important steps taken by the UPA government in the last ten years changed the life of the common man for the better.
Congress's Ram Dev Ram is pitted against BJP's Kamalbhan Singh Marawi in this constituency which is reserved for the scheduled tribes.
