BJP has failed to fulfil poll promises: Congress chief

DEHRADUN:Uttarakhand Congress president Pritam Singh has accused BJP national president Amit Shah of failing to fulfill the promises made by the Central BJP leaders to the people of Uttarakhand during the electioneering in the recently concluded Assembly elections in the state.

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, September 21

Uttarakhand Congress president Pritam Singh has accused BJP national president Amit Shah of failing to fulfill the promises made by the Central BJP leaders to the people of Uttarakhand during the electioneering in the recently concluded Assembly elections in the state.

Addressing a press conference from the state Congress headquarters in Dehradun today, Pritam Singh questioned the previous day’s visit of BJP president to Dehradun asserting that the top BJP leader in the country should have at least apprised the people of the state about the unfulfilled poll promises that were made to the state by the Central BJP leaders during the recent Assembly elections.

“During Assembly elections in the state, the BJP had promised that on coming to power, the state will have a double engine government with BJP both in the state and at the Centre and Uttarakhand it would witness a speedy development. But that development is nowhere to be seen and Amit Shah now needs to reply to the people of Uttarakhand”, Pritam Singh pointed out.

Similarly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised a loan waiver for farmers in Uttarakhand but that loan waiver was still to be given, he said.

Pritam Singh also alleged that the BJP utilised money to give publicity to the Amit Shah’s visit, which, he said, was amply revealed by the number of hoardings put up in Dehradun city and other publicity material used for the purpose.

State Congress president also alleged that inflation had gone all-time high since the BJP government came to power at the Centre. He said prices of LPG cylinders had almost doubled now when compared to the UPA government days. He said similarly petrol prices today stood at Rs 80 per litre and accused the Modi government of miserably failing to control the rising inflation.

Responding to queries, he asserted that it has been the BJP that has been benefited by demonetisation. He said BJP leaders purchased a large number of properties across the country from its black money just before demonetisation.

He also said that Amit Shah’s visit to Uttarakhand had also revealed growing factionalism within the BJP. The way the legislators and some ministers raised their resentment before Amit Shah amply reveal that all was not well within the BJP.