Senior BJP leader and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday stepped up the campaign against the ruling BJD for the Padampur by-election to be held on December 5, alleging that the Naveen Patnaik-led party was in power in Odisha for 22 years. The reason was tired and hence she lacks vision. development of the state.
Campaigning for the party’s candidate Pradeep Purohit, he accused the BJD government in the state of re-branding central schemes and passing them off as state government initiatives.
The Union Education Minister has taken part in several rallies and road shows on the assembly seat since Tuesday.
“The state government is tired of being in power for the last 22 years. Hence it is unable to conceive of new ideas for welfare schemes,” he said.
Accusing the state government of re-branding the schemes of the central government and projecting them as its own, he said that this is an attempt to mislead the common people of the state.
He was referring to the government’s announcement to increase the interest-free loan limit for women self-help groups from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, a decision Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday described as “revolutionary”.
“What’s so revolutionary about this? The Center had already made such a plan and the state government was just trying to stick its name on it.
He alleged that the state government has failed to fulfill its promises.
“What has the BJD government done for the people? There are no teachers in schools, doctors in hospitals, drinking water and irrigation facilities.
People have given 22 years to Patnaik and he wakes up before elections, he said. despite being prime minister Narendra Modi gives him money, Patnaik has not been able to spend them,” he said.
BJD vice-president and former state finance minister Prasanna Acharya said, “Pradhan often says that Modi gave money to Odisha. Modi is just a person, Odisha did not get alms from any person. It is a federal system and our state Some help comes from the central government, not from the prime minister.”
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