In a sharp attack on the Centre, Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi repeated on Thursday the charge he made in Parliament a day before, that the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and its ideology were leading the country towards danger. He accused the BJP of creating two Indias.
Rahul Gandhi, who was on a visit to Raipur, launched the state government’s two ambitious schemes—the Rajiv Gandhi Bhumiheen Krishi Majdoor Nyay Yojana and Rajiv Gandhi Yuva Mitaan Club. He also laid the foundation stones for Amar Jawan Jyoti and Sewa Gram to be built in Naya Raipur at a programme at the Science College Ground in Raipur.
“The BJP has divided India into two different countries, one that belongs to a few millionaires with lots of high-tech facilities and the other where the poor people of the country reside. The central government is extracting the money from the poor population and putting it in the pockets of a few hundreds,” he said while addressing the gathering.
Mentioning his promise of providing Rs 2,500 to farmers, the Lok Sabha MP said that the state government has fulfilled the promise of paying the actual amount for the farmers’ hard work to them. He said the state government’s move to providing financial assistance to the
landless labourers working in farms is a big step towards the welfare of the poor and urged the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister to increase the amount to be given to labourers under the scheme. On this occasion, the Chief Minister said that one more step has been taken towards making Chhattisgarh a public welfare state. There was a recession in the country due to the wrong policies of the central government, but the schemes implemented in Chhattisgarh on the instructions of Rahul Gandhi helped the state in shielding itself from the impact of slowdown.
Rahul Gandhi also launched a coffee table book, “Jo Kaha so Kiya” on the achievements of the Chhattisgarh government in the last three years. After inspection of an exhibition on the development in the state, Rahul Gandhi suggested the chief minister to take the magic of Chhattisgarh beyond the country so that the world gets the taste of Chhattisgarh’s products, knowledge and history.
Rahul Gandhi transferred the first instalment of “Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Bhumiheen Krishi Mazdoor Nyay Yojana” in the bank accounts of 3 lakh 55 thousand landless agricultural laborers registered under the scheme. An amount of Rs 6,000 will be directly transferred to the beneficiaries’ account in three instalments in a year. The state government has made a provision of Rs 200 crore in the supplementary budget for this scheme.
Rahul Gandhi laid the foundation stones of Sewa Gram and Amar Jawan Jyoti to be built in Naya Raipur. The Sewa Gram will be developed on a sprawling 76.5-acre land on the lines of Sewa Gram located in Wardha, Maharashtra to realise Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of “Gram Swaraj” and to preserve his values, principles and ideals in the 75th year of Independence.
Amar Jawan Jyoti, an eternal flame, will be lit in the premises of “4th battalion of Chhattisgarh Armed forces” at Mana in Raipur as a mark of tribute to soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for the country. It will have a wall of brown marble with martyrs’ names inscribed on it, a memorial tower and also a VVIP platform. The wall will be in the form of a crescent of about 25 feet high.